The Torre Carrarese, in Via Cesare Battisti, is all that remains of the ancient Palazzo Papafava, which occupied the location then known as 'Chicken Island', in San Martino contrada. The tower, once turreted, is now truncated and roofed. Together with the adjacent houses belong to the Papafava it formed an entire turreted complex, one of many in Padua. Giusto de'Menabuoi gives a lively impression of this city landscape in a fresco at the Conti Chapel of the Duomo. Jacopo I the Great took up residence in the complex in 1318, when he was elected Captain of the People. In 1345, forty days into the reign of Jacopo II, Papafava was killed and his assets were seized. The houses passed to the Carraresi. Near the tower was the Hospitium bovis: the most beautiful lodgings of the era, a total of 40 rooms with suggestive names, such as the room of the rose, the belvedere, wreath, crown or lily. The Hospitium also had stables sufficient for 200 horses. The name bovis, or 'bull', derived from the nearby slaughterhouse. In the last days of the Carraresi signoria, Novello sold the property to a butcher, Giacomo Marcolini del fu Bolzanino da Ravenna. One of his descendents, Giacomo de'Bolzanini, a graduate in law and man of great generosity, ceded the building to the University rector in perpetual lease. The 'Albergo del Bo' ceased operations and the building became the centre of the reorganised university campus.