Sapienza University of Rome at the university ceremony launching the 2008 academic year due to protests by some students and professors. The title of the speech would have been 'The Truth Makes Us Good and Goodness is Truth'. Some students and professors protested in reaction to a 1990 speech that Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) gave in which he, in their opinion, endorsed the actions of the church against Galileo in 1633. Among the prominent scholars who have taught at the Sapienza University of Rome are architects Ernesto Basile and Bruno Zevi; chemist Emanuele Paternò; jurists Antonio Salandra, Sabino Cassese and Giuliano
Peggy Rae Sapienza an Officer of BWAWA, she was a key factor in the formation of DC17, a bid to bring the Worldcon back to Washington DC in 2017, which was launched in October 2013. DC17 lost the site selection vote held at Sasquan in August 2015. She married her second husband John Sapienza, a long-time RPG aficionado who had contributed to TSR's AD&D and Chaoseum's RuneQuest (2nd ed), in 1999. Their honeymoon was in Australia, where not unexpectedly, Sapienza was recruited on short notice to run Volunteers at AussieCon III. More recently she was on the Bid Committee and represented Nippon, first