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Creation of the university

The Councillors of Barcelona Petitioning Alfonso V for a Royal Charter to Establish a University in the Capital of the Principality of Catalonia in 1450, Ricard Anckermann (1884), in the Paranymph Hall.

This picture represents the time when the two delegates of the Barcelona Council of One Hundred presented King Alfonso the Magnanimous with a petition to establish a university or estudi general in the city. The scene takes place in the Octavia Tower, in the Kingdom of Naples.