Padua

Padua was a city on the Bacchiglione west of Venice, with a university founded in 1222. In 1337 it was held by Alberto della Scala of Verona, whose family had seized it from the Carrara in 1328.

The Carrara returned in 1337 and, apart from a brief Visconti interlude, ruled until Padua surrendered to Venice in 1405. Its university gained a botanical garden in 1545; Elena Cornaro Piscopia became its first female graduate in 1678. Venetian rule ended with the republic's fall in 1797.