The volume is dedicated to the history of the international relations of Ca’ Foscari through its 150 years’ history. As the contributions to this volume illustrate, it is characterised by intense cultural, educational and scientific exchanges with people and institutions outside the national context, and its internationalisation was – and still is – promoted through the presence of foreign teachers and students and native language instructors, the exchange of bulletins and scientific publications with foreign institutions, the international contacts and networks developed by the alumni both individually and collectively, a growing number of scholarships of different kinds for study abroad as well as a growing number of foreign visiting scholars and professors. Thus, this volume eloquently testifies to the eminently international vocation that has characterised Ca’ Foscari since its foundation.