MORIGI COLLEGE gives its foundation to the Professor Giacomo Morigi,
born in Piacenza on the 1th of may 1783 and died on the 24th of december 1856,
emeritus surgeon of Piacenza Hospital, who left all his own property for the
foundation of a college for "the education of the male youth".
His executors bought the Douglas Scotti da Fombio palace, the actual seat of the College, that was opened on the18th of genuary 1869.
From its foundation it had inner schools until 1923, when it became a boarding-school of a classical stamp where hundreds of students from Piacenza and of the borderlands had menaged to finish middle and high studies.
The College was closed from September 1915 to June 1919 and from September 1940 to October 1954, worked as a Military Hospital and in the second post-war period as Centre of Assistance Post-wartime.
The adoption in 1998 of a new statute has made open the doors of this glamorous building to the university students of the city of Piacenza, becoming, with the recent entering of the Politecnico, in addition to the traditional presence o the Catholic University, an important university pole. In order to offer a reception entirely in keeping with the new needs, has been planned and it's being realised a deep reconstruction of the historical seat placed in the ancient palace in the heart of the city.
His executors bought the Douglas Scotti da Fombio palace, the actual seat of the College, that was opened on the18th of genuary 1869.
From its foundation it had inner schools until 1923, when it became a boarding-school of a classical stamp where hundreds of students from Piacenza and of the borderlands had menaged to finish middle and high studies.
The College was closed from September 1915 to June 1919 and from September 1940 to October 1954, worked as a Military Hospital and in the second post-war period as Centre of Assistance Post-wartime.
The adoption in 1998 of a new statute has made open the doors of this glamorous building to the university students of the city of Piacenza, becoming, with the recent entering of the Politecnico, in addition to the traditional presence o the Catholic University, an important university pole. In order to offer a reception entirely in keeping with the new needs, has been planned and it's being realised a deep reconstruction of the historical seat placed in the ancient palace in the heart of the city.