Referenced In

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

"“Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua.”"

"I cannot say this edifice recalled to my mind the magnificent sanctuary of Padua, which five years ago on this very day impressed my imagination so forcibly."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. John’s in Viridario at Padua, to which it was presented by John Marchanova, Doctor of Arts and Medicine, 1467."