The Scuola di Rialto was a public school in Venice founded between 1397 and 1408, through a bequest of Tommaso Talenti.
[1] It did not confer degrees, so as not to compete with the University of Padua, the only degree-granting institution in the Republic of Venice.
It had a single professor, almost always a patrician, who lectured on terminist logic and Aristotelian natural philosophy.
[2] The salary was 200 ducats and the professor was usually chosen by the Senate through open competition.
[1] The fourth professor was, unusually, a clergyman, Paolo della Pergola, who held the chair from 1421 until 1455.