Tuscia University

Tuscia University, known in Italian as Università degli Studi della Tuscia and commonly abbreviated UNITUS, is a university located in the city of Viterbo, Italy, and it was founded in 1979.图西亚大学（意大利文 Università degli Studi della Tuscia，通称 UNITUS）是一所位于意大利维泰博市的大学，创建于 1979 年，校名取自这座城市所在的历史地区，办学至今已逾四十年。

Much of its campus occupies the former monastic complex of Santa Maria in Gradi, and the university conducts its activity in a variety of locations within the city of Viterbo and around it.校园的大部分占据了圣玛丽亚因格拉迪修道院的旧址建筑群，大学的教学与研究活动则散布在维泰博市内及周边区域的多处地点，并不集中于单一校园，而是与整座城市相互交织。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 851-900 band, while the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 list it in the 701-800 band.在 QS 2027 年世界大学排名中，该校位列第 851-900 位区间；在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中，该校位列第 701-800 位区间，两份榜单的区间口径均以当年官方发布为准。

History

• The University of Tuscia was founded in 1979 in the city of Viterbo, a city whose identity and surrounding territory have long been associated with the historical region of Tuscia.图西亚大学于 1979 年在维泰博市创立，这座城市的身份认同与其周边的地域，长期以来都与历史上的图西亚地区联系在一起；校址设在维泰博，校名取自图西亚，两者之间存在直接的呼应关系。

• The reference to Tuscia in the university's name, fixed when the institution was founded in 1979, evokes the term used for a historical region of Italy centred in recent times upon Viterbo.校名中的图西亚一词在建校之时即已确定，它唤起的是意大利一个历史地区的称谓，这一地区在近代以来以维泰博城为中心，涵盖城市本身及其周边一带。

• In ancient times that name referred to far wider territories that lay under Etruscan influence, reaching well beyond the boundaries of the modern city, a breadth that gives the university's name a deep historical background.在古代，这一名称所指的地域远为广阔，那些土地处于伊特鲁里亚人的影响之下，其范围远远超出今日维泰博城的边界，构成校名更深层的历史底色。

• In post-antiquity the region included what is now the whole region of Tuscany, a name that itself preserves an echo of the older term and of the wider reach the name once had.在古典时代之后，图西亚所涵盖的范围包括今天的整个托斯卡纳地区，托斯卡纳这一名称至今仍保留着更古老称谓的回响，两个名称之间的连续性一直延续至今。

• The same historical region also took in a great part of Umbria and the northern parts of Lazio, a reach that shows how broad the old name once was.同一历史地区还包括翁布里亚的大部分以及拉齐奥的北部地带，这表明图西亚之名所指的范围远及维泰博城之外，旧名的广阔由此可见。

• Viterbo itself has a rich and complex history, one that the university entered in 1979, and among its many features the city bears the stamp of the turbulent medieval period.维泰博城本身拥有丰富而复杂的历史，大学于 1979 年进入这座城市的历史之中；在其众多面貌里，格外鲜明地保留着动荡的中世纪时代留下的印记。

• That medieval turbulence included the prolonged struggle between the Empire and the Papacy, a contest that repeatedly touched the city and its surroundings.那段中世纪的动荡包含帝国与教廷之间的长期角力，这场争斗一再波及这座城市及其周边地区，也深刻影响了当地的历史走向，城市在两大势力之间反复成为角力的舞台。

• The unfolding of the Renaissance forms another chapter in the history of the city, adding cultural change to the medieval inheritance of the area.文艺复兴的展开构成这座城市历史的又一章，在中世纪留给此地的遗产之上，又增添了一层文化的变迁，为后来者留下了可追溯的文化层次。

• Later phases of that history include the rise of a unified Italy and the city's experience of the struggle against Nazi aggression.这段历史的后续阶段还包括统一意大利的兴起，以及这座城市在反抗纳粹侵略的斗争中所经历的岁月，这些阶段共同构成了地方记忆的纵深。

• When the university was established in 1979, it took root in a city whose layered past reaches from Etruscan times through the medieval period into the modern age, so the university's setting is one of unusually layered history.1979 年大学创建之时，它扎根的这座城市拥有层层叠叠的过往，上溯伊特鲁里亚时代，贯穿整个中世纪，直至近现代，大学正是在这样的历史地层之上开始办学。

• Much of the campus occupies the former monastic complex of Santa Maria in Gradi, so the institution uses premises inherited from a former religious community in the city.校园的大部分位于圣玛丽亚因格拉迪修道院的旧址建筑群之中，因此学校所使用的校舍，承自这座城市里一个昔日的宗教团体。

• On 26 February 2019, the President of the Republic of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, chose to inaugurate the Italian academic year at Tuscia University.2019 年 2 月 26 日，意大利共和国总统塞尔焦·马塔雷拉选择在图西亚大学为意大利学年主持开幕典礼，这一选择使该校成为全国瞩目的场合。

• The ceremony opened with words of formal welcome delivered by Marco Frey, president of the Italian Foundation Global Compact Network, before the President spoke.典礼由意大利全球契约网络基金会主席马尔科·弗雷致正式欢迎辞开场，随后总统发表讲话，会场气氛庄重而热烈。

• In the address he delivered at the 2019 ceremony, the Head of State congratulated the university on the progress it had made in many areas of its activity.在 2019 年那场典礼上发表的讲话中，国家元首祝贺这所大学在其活动的诸多领域所取得的进步，讲话内容围绕学校的发展与前景展开。

• That progress was set in the context of the forty years since 1979, and the speech of 2019 offered encouragement for the future as well.这些进步被置于 1979 年以来四十年间的时间脉络中加以衡量，2019 年的讲话同时也对其未来发展表达了鼓励与期许。

• After the 2019 event, Mattarella made a private visit to the Monastery of St. Rose of Viterbo, which stands in the same city.2019 年那次活动结束之后，马塔雷拉私下探访了坐落在同一座城市中的维泰博圣罗撒修道院，这次探访并未列入公开日程。

• Being chosen to host the national inauguration of the academic year brought the university to national attention in early 2019, an occasion reported well beyond Viterbo.获选主办全国性的学年开幕典礼，使这所大学在 2019 年初赢得了全国的关注，相关报道远播维泰博之外。

• The institution carries the name of Tuscia even though the historical region it recalls once stretched far beyond the city, a reminder of older geographical identities.学校沿用图西亚之名，而它所唤起的那个历史地区昔日远远大于这座城市，这提醒着人们此地更为古老的地理身份。

• Its core specialist subject areas reflect in considerable part the current character of the territory that surrounds it, tying the university closely to its home region and to its landscapes.它的核心专业领域在很大程度上反映着周边地域当下的特征，从而使这所大学与其故乡地区紧密相连，学校与地方的联系也因此有了具体内容。

• The university conducts its activity in a variety of locations within and around Viterbo rather than within one single enclosed site.大学在维泰博市内及周边的多处地点开展活动，而不是局限在一个封闭的单一校园之内。

• In the four decades from 1979 to the inauguration of 2019, the university recorded progress in many areas of its activity, as noted in the presidential speech.从 1979 年建校到 2019 年那场开幕典礼的四十年间，大学在其活动的许多领域取得了进步，总统讲话对此有所提及。

• The foundation of the university in 1979 added a seat of learning to the Tuscia area, an institution whose programmes echo the character of its surroundings.1979 年的建校为图西亚地区增添了一处学术重镇，这所机构的专业设置持续呼应着周边环境的面貌。

• The former monastic complex at the heart of the site preserves visible traces of the religious community that once occupied it, now adapted to university use.位于校址核心地带的旧修道院建筑群，保留着昔日宗教团体在此生活所留下的可见痕迹，如今已被改造为大学之用，它同时见证宗教与学术两种生活方式的更替。

• The foundation of 1979 gave Viterbo an institution whose teaching activity would come to span sites within the city and in its surroundings.1979 年的建校为维泰博带来了一所其教学活动遍及城区与周边的机构，学校的空间格局也由此逐步展开。

• The 2019 inauguration placed the university's history in the frame of the fortieth year since its foundation in 1979, linking ceremony and origins.2019 年的开幕典礼把大学的历史置于 1979 年建校以来第四十个年头的框架之中，将典礼与创校岁月联系在一起，四十年的跨度在典礼上被重新提起。

Academics

• Teaching and research at the university are organised through a structure of academic departments, described as six in number in the institution's own English-language profile.该校的教学与研究通过学术系部的架构加以组织，校方英文简介称其共有 6 个系，这些系部构成学校基本的教学与研究单元。

• The Department of Legal, Social, and Educational Sciences brings law and the social and educational fields together within a single academic unit of the university, keeping the fields closely connected.法律、社会与教育科学系把法律与社会、教育等领域的研究与教学纳入同一个学术单元之中，体现出学科交叉的组织思路。

• The Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, a unit often rendered as the university's Agriculture and Forestry School, anchors the university's work in farming and woodland subjects, fields closely linked to the surrounding territory.农业与林业科学系（常被译作 Agriculture and Forestry School）支撑着学校在农作与林地领域的教学研究，这些领域与周边地域联系紧密，也与学校所处地区的农林传统相呼应。

• The Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, a unit often rendered as the Ecological and Biological Sciences School, adds an environmental and life-science strand to the university's research profile, complementing its agricultural departments.生态与生物科学系（常被译作 Ecological and Biological Sciences School）为学校的研究格局增添了环境与生命科学的方向，与其农业类系部互为补充，共同拓展学校的科学基础。

• The Department of Economy, Engineering, Society and Business, a unit often rendered as the Engineering and Business School, gathers economic, engineering, social and management subjects within one department, connecting technical and managerial training in one programme of study.经济、工程、社会与商业系（常被译作 Engineering and Business School）把经济、工程、社会与管理等学科汇聚于一个系，兼顾技术训练与管理培养。

• The Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems points to research on food production and forest resources, themes of practical weight in the local economy of the Tuscia area.生物、农食与森林系统创新系指向食品生产与森林资源方面的研究，这些主题在当地经济中具有实际分量，也与学校的农林学科底色相互衔接。

• The Department of Linguistic, Literary, Historical, Philosophical and Legal Studies, a unit often rendered as the university's Literary and Humanities School, gathers humanities and legal scholarship under a single organisational heading within the university, covering literature, history, philosophy and legal thought.语言、文学、历史、哲学与法律研究系（常被译作 Literary and Humanities School）把人文与法律学术归入大学内部同一个组织名目之下，覆盖从语言文学到法学的宽广领域。

• The Department of Humanities, Communication and Tourism, a unit often rendered as the Humanities and Communication School, completes the named list of departments, adding communication and tourism studies to the academic map.人文、传播与旅游系（常被译作 Humanities and Communication School）补齐了校方所列的系部名单，把传播与旅游研究纳入学校由官方组织架构所勾画的学科版图。

• Its core specialist subject areas reflect in considerable part the character of the territory around Viterbo, from which many of its programmes draw their focus.该校的核心专业领域在很大程度上反映着维泰博周边地域的特征，许多专业方向正由此汲取重点，这构成学校与地方之间一条隐性而持久的纽带。

• The university also maintains its own botanical garden, the Orto Botanico dell'Università della Tuscia, as part of its scientific and educational resources.学校还设有自己的植物园，即图西亚大学植物园（Orto Botanico dell'Università della Tuscia），作为其科学与教育资源的一部分。

• The naming of its departments reveals a dual profile that combines agrarian, ecological and biological sciences with law, humanities, communication and tourism.从系部的命名可以看出该校兼具双重面貌：农学、生态与生物科学同法律、人文、传播与旅游并行发展，这一宽度在一所规模精干的学校里颇为醒目。

• The English-language profile of the university cites six departments, a compact structure for an institution that also runs a botanical garden and several teaching sites.学校的英文简介列出 6 个系，对于一个还经营着植物园和多个教学场所的机构而言，这是相当精干的结构。

• Across those departments the institution links agricultural and environmental subjects with the humanities and professional fields, a reflection of its setting in the Tuscia area.在这些系部之间，学校把农业与环境学科同人文学科及职业领域相联结，这正是其地处图西亚地区的一种反映。

• The garden and the ecological and biological department together support the university's teaching and research in the plant and life sciences, fields tied to the territory.植物园与生态及生物科学系共同支撑学校在植物与生命科学方面的教学与研究，这些领域与学校所服务的图西亚地域相互关联，教学与研究由此获得来自植物学实践层面的直接支撑。

• The spread of subjects, from agrarian sciences to tourism and communication, gives the institution a breadth of academic coverage unusual for a university of its size.从农学直到旅游与传播的学科铺陈，使这所学校在相近规模的高校中展现出颇为宽广的学术覆盖面。

Campus

• Much of the campus occupies the former monastic complex of Santa Maria in Gradi, whose buildings now house teaching and research activity across several fields of study.校园的大部分位于圣玛丽亚因格拉迪修道院的旧址建筑群，其建筑如今承载着教学与研究活动，这里是学校历史最悠久的一片校舍。

• The university's activity is spread across a variety of locations within Viterbo and around it, so its presence is not confined to one site.大学的活动散布在维泰博市内及周边的多处地点，因此它的存在并不局限于单一的校址，教学活动也因此处处带有城市的印记。

• The former monastery of Santa Maria in Gradi gives the institution a historic core whose name remains closely tied to the university's identity in Viterbo and in the wider Tuscia area.圣玛丽亚因格拉迪旧修道院为学校提供了一处历史核心，其名称至今与大学在维泰博乃至整个图西亚地区的身份紧密相连，校名与地名的重合也强化了这种联系。

• The campus lies at approximately 42.41937 degrees north and 12.1056 degrees east, placing the university within the city of Viterbo.校园大致位于北纬 42.41937 度、东经 12.1056 度，正处在维泰博市区范围之内。

• The unfolding of the Renaissance forms one layer of the city's history, part of the setting in which the university's buildings stand.文艺复兴的展开构成这座城市历史的一层，也是大学校舍所置身的环境的一部分，城市的文化层积由此成为校园环境的一部分。

• The Orto Botanico dell'Università della Tuscia is the university's own botanical garden, a living collection attached to its scientific work and teaching mission.图西亚大学植物园是学校自有的植物园，是与该校科学工作与教学使命相伴相随的活体收藏地。

• The Monastery of St. Rose of Viterbo, which the President of Italy visited privately in 2019, stands in the city that hosts the university.意大利总统 2019 年曾私下探访的维泰博圣罗撒修道院，正坐落在接纳这所大学的城市里，这一探访与开幕典礼一样成为 2019 年的印记。

• Viterbo's complex history, spanning medieval conflict, the Renaissance, unification and war, provides the backdrop for the university's several sites across the city in which it operates.维泰博复杂的历史横跨中世纪纷争、文艺复兴、国家统一与战争，为大学散布全城的多个场所提供了背景。

• Teaching takes place both within the former monastery complex and at other locations in and around Viterbo, a pattern that follows the city's own layout.教学既在旧修道院建筑群内进行，也在维泰博市内及周边的其他地点展开，这种格局与城市自身的布局相合，两个地点之间的往返构成日常教学的一部分。

• Several of the university's premises lie in and around a city that has lived through the Renaissance and the making of unified Italy.大学的若干场所位于这座城市及其周边，而这座城市亲历了文艺复兴与意大利统一的历史进程，校园因此难以与城市的历史肌理分开来看。

• The former religious community of Santa Maria in Gradi left the university a built heritage older than the institution itself, adapted over time to academic uses.圣玛丽亚因格拉迪昔日的宗教团体为大学留下了一处比学校本身更为古老的建筑遗产，历经改造后适应了今日的学术用途。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Tuscia University is listed within the 851-900 band, one of the ranges used in that year's global table.在 QS 2027 年世界大学排名中，图西亚大学被列入第 851-900 位区间，这是该年度全球榜单所采用的区间之一。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 701-800 band, a higher placement than its position in the QS table of the same year.泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名把该校列入第 701-800 位区间，高于其同年 QS 榜单上的位次。

• In the 2026-2027 edition of the US News global universities ranking, the university holds position 1495 in that international table of world institutions.在 2026-2027 年度的 US News 全球大学排名中，该校在这份面向全球高校的国际榜单上位列第 1495 名。

• The university is not listed in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Shanghai-based table whose edition for that year does not include it among the ranked institutions.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，即通常所说的上海排名，该年度榜单并未将其收录于上榜机构之中。

• Beyond league tables, the university's standing was underlined in 2019 when the President of Italy chose it to host the national academic-year inauguration, an event of national significance in Italy.在各类排行榜之外，这所大学的地位在 2019 年得到凸显，当时意大利总统选择它来主办全国学年的开幕典礼，典礼的规格由此上升为国家级活动。

• The presidential speech at that ceremony congratulated the university on progress achieved across many areas in the forty years since its foundation.那场典礼上的总统讲话，祝贺该校自建校以来的四十年间在诸多领域所取得的进步。

• Its research and teaching profile is concentrated in six academic departments, with specialist strengths in agricultural, forestry and ecological sciences that match the territory around Viterbo.该校的研究与教学集中于 6 个系，在农业、林业与生态科学方面形成专长，与维泰博周边的地域条件相契合，六个系部的规模也使学校的办学重心一目了然。

• Taken together, the tables of 2027 place the university in the 701-800 band in Times Higher Education and the 851-900 band in QS, while US News lists it at 1495.综合来看，2027 年的各份榜单把该校列入泰晤士高等教育的第 701-800 位区间与 QS 的第 851-900 位区间，US News 则将其列在第 1495 名。

Student life

• Students study in Viterbo, a city whose rich and complex history shapes the surroundings of everyday university life, from the medieval period onward.学生在维泰博就读，这座城市的丰富而复杂的历史，自中世纪以降一直塑造着日常大学生活的周边环境，从中世纪的印记到文艺复兴的记忆都在其中。

• The inauguration of the Italian academic year in February 2019, attended by the Head of State, gave the university community a moment of ceremony and national attention.2019 年 2 月由国家元首出席的意大利学年开幕典礼，为大学共同体带来了兼具仪式感与全国关注的一刻。

• The range of departments spans legal, social and educational sciences at one end and communication and tourism studies at the other.学校的系部范围一端是法律、社会与教育科学，另一端则是传播与旅游研究，覆盖面貌颇为多样。

• That spread offers students several paths through humanities learning and professional training, all within a single compact institution.这样的布局为学生提供了贯通人文学习与职业培养的多条路径，而这一切都发生在一所规模精干的学校之内。

• Formal occasions such as the 2019 inauguration, opened with Marco Frey's words of welcome, connect campus life with national institutions and public life.诸如 2019 年开幕典礼这样由马尔科·弗雷致欢迎辞开场的正式场合，把校园生活与国家机关和公共生活联系在一起。

• Living in Viterbo places students among monuments that recall the medieval struggle between Empire and Papacy and the later history of Italy, with history close at hand.生活在维泰博，学生置身于令人追想帝国与教廷中世纪角力的纪念物之间，也置身于意大利后世历史的氛围之中，历史在这里触手可及。

• The former monastic complex of Santa Maria in Gradi gives the university community a distinctive setting rooted in centuries of religious life and later university use, giving campus life an unusual historical depth.圣玛丽亚因格拉迪旧修道院建筑群，为大学共同体提供了植根于数百年宗教生活与后来大学岁月的独特环境。

• The botanical garden offers students and staff a living collection of plants linked to the university's biological and agricultural teaching, serving both study and recreation.植物园为学生与教职工提供与学校生物和农业教学相关的活体植物收藏，既服务于学习，也服务于休憩，园林与校园的其他部分共同构成完整的学习环境。

Notable people

• Sergio Mattarella, President of the Republic of Italy, inaugurated the Italian academic year at Tuscia University on 26 February 2019, an occasion that highlighted the university's public role.意大利共和国总统塞尔焦·马塔雷拉于 2019 年 2 月 26 日在图西亚大学为意大利学年揭幕，这一场合凸显了该校的公共角色。

• In his address at the university, Mattarella congratulated Tuscia on the progress it had made in many areas of its activity over four decades.马塔雷拉在该校的讲话中，祝贺图西亚大学在过去四十年间于其活动的诸多领域所取得的进步。

• After the inauguration, Mattarella made a private visit to the Monastery of St. Rose of Viterbo, the city landmark associated with the saint of that name.开幕典礼之后，马塔雷拉私下探访了维泰博圣罗撒修道院，这处城市地标与同名的圣女联系在一起。

• Marco Frey, president of the Italian Foundation Global Compact Network, delivered the words of formal welcome at the inauguration ceremony in February 2019, setting the tone for the event.意大利全球契约网络基金会主席马尔科·弗雷在 2019 年 2 月的开幕典礼上致正式欢迎辞，欢迎辞为整场典礼定下基调。

• Marco Frey attended in his capacity as president of the Italian Foundation Global Compact Network, the body he led at the time of the ceremony.马尔科·弗雷是以意大利全球契约网络基金会主席的身份出席的，典礼举行时他正领导这一机构。

• St. Rose of Viterbo is commemorated by the Monastery of St. Rose of Viterbo, which the President visited privately in the city after the inauguration.维泰博的圣罗撒因维泰博圣罗撒修道院而受到纪念，总统在开幕典礼之后曾在这座城市私下探访该修道院。

• The February 2019 inauguration, attended by Mattarella and opened by Frey, remains a landmark public occasion in the university's history since its foundation in 1979.2019 年 2 月由马塔雷拉出席、由弗雷主持开场的开幕典礼，仍是该校自 1979 年建校以来具有标志意义的公共场合。