Along with such universities as Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge, that of Padua was one of the first to exemplify the idea of a Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum - an educational model that can now be seen throughout the world. Though the university's year of foundation is generally given as 1222, that in fact only marks the date from which there are records of a "fixed and publicly recognised university established within the city" and so the actual foundation can be dated even early, to a period when a number of professors and students had left the University of Bologna as a result of "offences to academic freedom and the failure to observe the privileges that had been guaranteed to teachers and pupils". Such exchanges of personnel and students - together with the similarities in the Statutes of the two foundations - reveal that Padua placed a certain importance on this link with what was the oldest university in the world, against which it was however very soon setting itself up as a rival (and even centuries later that rivalry has lost none of its edge).University of Padua was not founded as the result of a charter granted by pope of emperor, but as a "response to the specific social and cultural conditions that created a need for it"; and its motto of Universa Universis Patavina Libertas was well-deserved not only under the original Commune of the thirteenth century but also during the fourteenth-century rule of the Carraresi and throughout the period of Venetian rule of the city (from the 15th to the 18th century), all these different authorities guaranteeing full respect for the university's freedoms. The fifteenth century would see the beginning of more than three hundred years of growth in prestige as the University of Padua benefited from the protection of the Venetian 2 Republic, which was determined that this should be the only Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum within its territories. It was during this period that Padua made its great contribution to the nascent scientific revolution, with developments in philosophical thought, in the study of medicine and anatomy and the great discoveries in astronomy, physics and mathematics that are linked with the eighteen-year period that Galileo Galilei taught at the university (from 1592 to 1610).During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, as universities spread throughout Europe and ideas were exchanged backwards and forwards across the continent, the role of Padua University changed; however, it still maintained its unique position within the Venetian Republic, and the eminence of its professors meant it continued to hold a high place both within and without Italy. Amongst the figures associated with the University at this time, one might mention: Domenico Guglielmi, Bernardino Ramazzini, Gian Battista Morgagni, Gian Battista Poleni, Antonio Vallisneri and Giuseppe Toaldo, with the students including Carlo Goldoni, Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Tartini and Giacomo Casanova.The political role of the university was particularly apparent in the nineteenth century, when its professors and students took part in the local uprising of February 1848 against the Austrian occupation; and again in the First World War, Padua would find itself the centre of the zone of operations bordering on the Austrian Front. Just a few decades later, under its Rector Concetto Marchesi and its Pro-Rector Egidio Meneghetti, Padua University would live up to its motto by taking a leading role in the struggle against the Nazi occupation of 1943-45; and in recognition of the sacrifices made by so many young people who lost their life in that struggle, the university would later receive the Gold Medal for Valour, the only university in Italy to gain such an awardn recent years, the University has been able to meet the problems posed by overcrowded facilities by re-deploying over the Veneto as a whole. In 1990, the Institute of Management Engineering was set up in Vicenza; then the summer courses at Bressanone began once more; and in 1995 the Agripolis centre at Legnaro - for Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine - opened. Other sites of re-deployment are at Rovigo, Treviso, Feltre, Castelfranco Veneto, Conegliano, Chioggia and Asiago.Recent changes in state legislation have also opened the way to greater autonomy for Italian universities, and in 1995 Padua adopted a Statute that gave it greater independence. As the publications of innumerable conferences and congresses show, the modern-day University of Padua plays an important role in scholarly and scientific research at both a European and world level. True to its origins, this is the direction in which the Institution intends to move in the future, establishing closer and closer links of co-operation and exchange with all the world's major research universities.

　　与博洛尼亚、巴黎、牛津和剑桥等大学一起，帕多瓦大学是这是首次体现了“全能教育中学”(Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum)理念的典范——一种教育模式如今，这种现象遍布全球。尽管大学的成立年份是通常称为1222年，实际上这仅标志着有“固定记录”的日期以及在城市内设立的公认大学“，因此实际的基金会可以甚至可以追溯到一个时期，当时许多教授和学生已经离开了由于“学术自由受侵犯及未遵守这些特权是保障给教师和学生的。”此类人员交流和学生们结合两所学校章程中的相似性，揭示了帕多瓦他对与世界上最古老大学的联系给予一定重视，反对然而，很快就成为了竞争对手(甚至几个世纪后这种竞争关系)依然保持锋芒)。帕多瓦大学并非因宪章授予而成立但作为“对特定社会和文化条件的回应”，而这正是皇帝教皇的对它的需求“;其座右铭“Universa Universis Patavina Libertas”不仅实至名归无论是在13世纪的原始公社时期，还是在14世纪期间卡拉雷西家族的统治以及威尼斯统治城市期间(从15世纪到15世纪) 18世纪)，所有这些不同的权威都保证了对大学的充分尊重自由。十五世纪开启了三百多年的历史随着帕多瓦大学因威尼斯人的保护而声望提升 2 该校被认定为唯一的全能门徒文理中学在其领土内。正是在这一时期，帕多瓦为初现的科学革命，伴随着哲学思想的发展，以及医学与解剖学以及天文学、物理学和数学的重大发现与伽利略·伽利莱在该大学任教的十八年时期(从1592年至1592年)相关联 1610).十七至十八世纪期间，随着大学在欧洲各地的扩展帕多瓦的角色在大陆各地来回交流思想大学更换;然而，它仍然保持着在威尼斯共和国内的独特地位，其教授们的卓越地位使它在内心和没有意大利。在当时与大学相关的人物中，可以提到：多梅尼科·古列尔米，贝尔纳迪诺·拉马齐尼，詹·巴蒂斯塔·莫尔加尼，詹·巴蒂斯塔·波莱尼，安东尼奥瓦利斯内里和朱塞佩·托阿尔多，学生包括卡洛·戈尔多尼、乌戈·福斯科洛、朱塞佩塔尔蒂尼和贾科莫·卡萨诺瓦。大学的政治角色在十九世纪，当时其教授和学生参与了二月的地方起义 1848年反对奥地利占领;第一次世界大战期间，帕多瓦再次陷入困境该区与奥地利战线接壤的作战区中心。仅仅几十年后，在校长孔切托·马尔凯西和副校长埃吉迪奥·梅内盖蒂的领导下，帕多瓦大学将践行其座右铭，在1943-45年反抗纳粹占领的斗争中发挥领导作用; 以及对许多年轻人在那场战争中牺牲的牺牲的认可在这场斗争中，该大学后来获得了英勇金质奖章，成为意大利唯一的大学近年来，大学能够应对通过在整个威尼托河上重新部署，导致设施过度拥挤。1990年，研究所管理工程在维琴察设立;随后布雷萨诺内的暑期课程开始再一次;1995年，莱尼亚罗的阿格里波利斯农业科学与兽医中心成立医学——已开启。其他重新部署地点包括罗维戈、特雷维索、费尔特雷、卡斯特尔弗兰科威尼托、科内利亚诺、基奥贾和阿西亚戈。州立法的最新变化也开启了意大利大学获得了更大的自治权，1995年帕多瓦通过了一项章程，赋予了该权利更独立。正如无数会议和大会的出版物所示，现代帕多瓦大学在学术和科学研究方面发挥着重要作用。无论是欧洲还是世界级。秉承其起源，这正是机构的发展方向计划未来推进，建立越来越紧密的合作与交流联系与世界所有主要的研究型大学合作。