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Summer courses for High School students!

Wed 20-04-2022

From next June, we share a great time with High School students from all over Italy: we are introducing you to the 2022 edition of PVER & PAIS! We have renewed and widened the course, in order to make it richer, funnier and more useful! Just after the end of the school,…

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The IISC publishing house!

Fri 01-04-2022

We are happy to announce to everyone that the IISC has inaugurated its publishing house: Edizioni Istituto Italiano di Studi Classici! The Edizioni aims to spread texts and tools for studying and teaching Classical languages, offering works which provide not only language learning but also literary reflection. We are starting our work publishing…

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Courses of Latin and Ancient...

Mon 17-01-2022

In the second semester, we are starting our advanced courses for enthusiasts and experts who have a good knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek. Today, we are renewing and widening our educational offer, which is a unique opportunity for excellence studies at the School of Higher Studies at the IISC….

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Now in bookshops professor Pirrone’s book!

Fri 02-10-2020

A few weeks ago Prof. Pirrone, President of the IISC, ha published the first Italian translation of the Latin text of the Historia Brittonum for Carocci publishing house. The Historia Brittonum is the primary source of all medieval British historiography and it mentions Arthur and Merlin for the first time in literature….

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Let’s start again!

Wed 23-09-2020

The Italian Institute of Classical Studies welcomes the new academic year! Classes will resume in presence and, from October, students might attend classes also in live streaming! From the 19th of October 2020, we are starting our classes of the academic year 2020-21. Lessons will be held in classrooms but…

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Article on the Vivarium Novum...

Thu 05-03-2020

About a month ago, the Italian newspaper Espresso has published an article on the history and the activities of the Vivarium Novum, where Giorgio Punzo is mentioned as the inspirational figure of the Accademia. Punzo, moving from misogynistic and homophobic positions, wrote some philosophical books where he proposed the doctrine of holarrenism, that is,…

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Summer courses in Rome

Mon 17-02-2020

An extraordinary and international event: in the heart of Rome, a summer of total immersion in classical languages! From the 22nd of june, in collaboration with the Libraries Institution of Rome, our summer courses of Latin and ancient Greek! The lessons will offer a thorough and intensive study of classical…

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Certamen Linguae Latinae

Wed 05-02-2020

We are pleased to announce the first edition of Certamen Linguae Latinae! The first direct comprehension competition of a Latin text desired and organized by the IISC, together with Roma Capitale – Municipio II, the Liceo Giulio Cesare and its Association of alumni and teachers, and the Italian Association of…

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Scholae Latinae Salernitanae

Mon 27-01-2020

We communicate with great joy the news of the opening of  a didactic branch location of the IISC in the city of Salerno! Thanks to our Daphne grieco, professor of the IISC and scholar of the University Federico II of Naples, from February we will also start a Latin course…

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I nuovi corsi di gennaio:...

Sun 12-01-2020

The IISC expands its educational offer by activating new teachings: a unique and unmissable opportunity that only Our Institute offers to scholars, teachers, and lovers of classical languages and culture. For the first time, the course of History and Theory of teaching of classical languages, which is recognized by MIUR –…

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Latino per Liceali

Tue 07-01-2020

IUNIORES arrives in February! The latin course dedicated to high school students. After the great successes of the students who have attended PVER, the summer course for high school students, a new project is  now starting! IUNIORES is the IISC course dedicated exclusevely to high school students, both to those who…

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Worldwide success for “Lingua Ecclesiae”

Fri 26-04-2019

We are happy to announce that the Italian Institute for Classical Studies, in collaboration with the prestigious Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis, has confirmed Lingua Ecclesiae: the first intensive summer course directed specifically toward Ecclesiastics, and conducted entirely in Latin. Our students – priests, seminarians, consecrated persons and religious – coming…

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Summer course for High School students

Tue 09-04-2019

The IICS, with the Patronage of the Municipality of Rome, organizes for the period 10-21 June 2019 (two weeks) the first summer course in “living” Latin designed specifically to meet the needs of a high school student. The course covers all the main topics of Latin grammar in addition to…

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Conference May, 11 2019

Wed 03-04-2019

On the morning of Saturday 11 May 2019 the convention “Luce nuova sole nuovo. Continuità e fratture tra il latino e l’italiano: la nostra lingua tra ieri e domani” will be held in Rome. The event, which has the patronage of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali and that…

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Notice of competition with prizes...

Mon 07-01-2019

Given to the success of the Christmas edition of the Certamen de Commentariis, we decided to hold a Second Competition! On this occasion the participants will be asked for a brief comment in Latin or Greek of a piece by Seneca. Also in this occasion the prize will be an…

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Happy new year!

Mon 07-01-2019

Dear students, professors and friends all of the IISC, The beginning of the new year is always the time of a double-faced look: Looking at what has been, tracing a budget, and addressing what will be, formulating prospects and cultivating expectations. Especially for this, it is the time of the…

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Notice of competition with prizes “Certamen Commentariorum”

Mon 17-12-2018

For the Christmas holidays, the IICS has decided to launch a competition with prizes, called Certamen Commentariorum. The competition requires the commentary written in Latin or Ancient Greek of a text of classical literature. Prize: an Amazon voucher of € 30 to buy a book! (Read under the rules of…

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Prof. Agus conference at the...

Mon 17-12-2018

Last Thursday 13 December, the 2018 School Day took place in Foggia, organized for the training and updating of High School teachers. The Italian Institute for Classical Studies has been invited to participate with Prof. Alessandro Agus, IICS Scientific Director. Prof. Agus, in his speech, illustrated to the teachers, coming…

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IISC Christmas dinner

Fri 14-12-2018

Today, after the Latin academic lessons, we will have the traditional Christmas dinner of the Italian Institute of Classical Studies. The students of the first and second years of the Latin and Greek courses will take part in the event together with the teachers. All IICS students are invited to…

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Prof. Pirrone conference at the UPS

Mon 10-12-2018

Last December 6, the President of IICS Prof. Federico Pirrone, held at the Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis, at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, a conference entitled “Quantum ponderis qualemque fortunam methodus directa in lingua Latina docenda habuerit”. The intervention was held entirely in Latin and directed to the students…

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A.Y. 2018/19 and refresher courses...

Thu 25-10-2018

IICS academic courses began last week: the students enrolled this year in the Latin and Greek curricular courses are about 70, in addition to that of the courses organized outside in collaboration with other institutions. For more information visit the link: https://www.iisc-edu.com/en/corsi-accademici/   We are also pleased to announce that…

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Visiting Petra in Latin

Wed 05-09-2018

The summer course organized by the IICS at the University of Jordan in Amman was successfully concluded: the academic and political authorities of the country wanted to pay homage to the initiative by participating in the closing ceremony of the course. Among others, the former Jordanian Prime Minister Awn Al-Khasawneh…

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Orationes discipulorum Latinae

Sun 17-06-2018

On the occasion of the closing of the academic year, we want to greet all our friends, students and benefactors of the IISC, presenting the fruits of the seeds we sowed during the year. Three young talents have just finished their Latin language curriculum at our Institute (pictured here, from…

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Corriere della Sera about IISC

Wed 06-06-2018

Dear friends, we would like to inform you that, on June 2nd, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera dedicated an article to present our Latin Summer Course in Amman, at the University of Jordan. To read the article, click here! We are glad to know that people have appreciated and…

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Exams of 6 CFU/ECTS at the IICS

Wed 20-12-2017

The educational offer of the Italian Institute for Classical Studies is increasingly appreciated by cultural and educational institutions in Italy and abroad. In this sense, starting from the academic year 2017/18 the curricular courses offered by us have an university dignity. Taking an exam at the IISC has therefore the…

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On the other side of the desk

Thu 26-04-2018

We are pleased to share with you a methodological reflection on the teaching of Latin written by one of our best students, Emanuele Cresca. Emanuele attends the fourth year of “Liceo Classico Aristophanes”; with the final exam in June, he is preparing to conclude with brilliant and surprising results the…

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Announcement of the project “Lingua Ecclesiae”

Fri 23-02-2018

We are happy to announce that the Italian Institute for Classical Studies, in collaboration with the prestigious Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis, is launching Lingua Ecclesiae: the first intensive summer course directed specifically toward Ecclesiastics, and conducted entirely in Latin. Our students – priests, seminarians, consecrated persons and religious – coming…

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International Latin summer course

Tue 13-02-2018

Today, we are pleased to announce that the Italian Institute for Classical Studies has officially formalized a prestigious international collaboration with the University of Jordan. Thanks to this collaboration, we are launching a project with extraordinary cultural significance and historical value: for the first time in centuries, Latin will once…

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Versione di Maturità 2017

Tue 21-11-2017

La scorsa estate gli studenti di Licei classici d’Italia hanno affrontato la traduzione di un passo dell’Epistola 16 di Seneca. Alla riprese delle attività dell’Istituto Italiano di Studi Classici, i nostri docenti hanno voluto sottoporre, in lingua originale, lo stesso testo agli studenti liceali che stavano iniziando il secondo anno…

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Collaborazione con il Comune di Monterotondo

Wed 20-12-2017

È iniziato il giorno 8 novembre 2017 un nuovo corso erogato dall’IISC presso il Museo archeologico multimediale di Monterotondo (RM). Il corso è stato richiesto dallo stesso Comune con l’intento di ampliare le politiche culturali per la cittadinanza, con particolare attenzione agli studenti più meritevoli dei licei classici e scientifici…

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Auguri di buone feste

Wed 20-12-2017

In occasione delle imminenti festività, il Presidente Prof. Federico Pirrone, il Direttore Scientifico Prof. Alessandro Agus, il corpo docente e il personale tutto dell’IISC hanno la gioia di estendere agli studenti e a tutti gli amici, con un particolare pensiero rivolto ai benefattori dell’Istituto, i propri più sentiti e calorosi…

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