found should everywhere make
praiseworthy progress, and should especially flourish more
abundantly in such places as are considered to be more suitable and
fitting for the multiplication of the seeds and salutary germs of
right teaching. Whereas some time ago, Pope Clement of pious memory,
our predecessor, considering the purity of faith and the excelling
devotion which the city of Perugia belonging to our Papal states is
recognized to have maintained for a long period towards the church,
wishing that these might increase from good to better in the course
of time, deemed it fitting and equitable that this same city, which
had been endowed by Divine Grace with the prerogatives of many
special favors, should be distinguished by the granting of
university powers, in order that by the goodness of God men might be
raised up in the city itself pre-eminent for their learning, decreed
by the Apostolic authority that a university should be situated in
the city and that it should flourish there for all future time with
all those faculties that may be found more fully set forth in the
letter of that same predecessor aforesaid. And whereas we
subsequently, though unworthy, having been raised to the dignity of
the Apostolic primacy, are desirous to reward with a still richer
gift the same city of Perugia for the proofs of its devotion by
which it has proven itself worthy of the favor of the Apostolic See,
by our Apostolic authority and in accordance with the council of our
brother bishops, we grant to our venerable brother the Bishop of
Perugia and to those who may be his successors in {151} that diocese
the right of conferring on persons who are worthy of it the license
to teach (the Doctorate) in canon and civil law, according to that
fixed method which is more fully described and regulated more at
length in this our letter.

"Considering, therefore, that this same city, because of its
conveniences and its many favoring conditions, is altogether
suitable for students and wishing on that account to amplify the
educational concessions hitherto made because of the public benefits
which we hope will flow from them, we decree by Apostolic authority
that if there are any who in the course of time shall in that same
university attain the goal of knowledge in medical science and the
liberal arts and should ask for license to teach in order that they
may be able to