Luigi Miraglia

Luigi Miraglia

Dean, Accademia Vivarium Novum, Italy

Luigi Miraglia (Naples, 1965) received his bachelor's degree in Classical literature from the University “Federico II” of Naples, writing a thesis on ancient Christian literature. He then received a doctorate in Classical Philology from the University of Salerno, working on the history of the teaching methods of classical languages from the third to the eighteenth century. He taught in state high-schools, at the University of Salerno, and at the Pontifical Salesian University. In 1991, he founded the Vivarium novum Academy and started, in 1998, the project of an international campus for students coming from every part of the world, which is now settled in the Borrominian Villa Falconieri in Frascati. He directs the Academy, where he teaches neo-Latin literature (XIV-XVIII centuries). He has participated in several international education and scientific programs in various European, Asian and American countries. He has also organized and directed the international conferences “Latino sì, ma non così” (Procida-Vivara 1991),“Docere” (Naples-Montella 1998), “Humanitas” (Naples 2007), “Litterarum vis” (Szeged-Budapest 2008),“Monumenta viaeque” (Rome 2010) and “Global forum for the humanities through classical education” (Hangzhou, China, 2019).  He is author of many books and articles, primarily on the teaching of Latin and Greek, on the history of pedagogy, and on neo-Latin literature; he directs the Academic journal “Mantinea” and is an honorary member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae and of the Pontificia Academia Latinitatis.