Abstract

The essay focuses on the forms of financing of the Padua Studio in the sixteenth century. The sources used are eighteenth century copies of the «bollettari» (registers of the receipts, covering three quarters of the century), the only two surviving original «bollettari» (1540 and 1552), the report by Giovanni Francesco Trincavella (1554) and, above all, the archival collection of the Paduan «Territorio», hitherto ignored by university historians. From 1496 and throughout the 16th century, the Studio’s main source of financing was the duties of the «boccatico» and the «carratico», the revenue from which increased over the course of the century and which was paid not by the city of Padua, but by the Paduan countryside.