1. The method of the Vivarium Novum: A brief history

During the 1980s a group of young classicists in Southern Italy began to gather around an old teacher and discuss the necessity of renovating the didactics of the classical languages. Young people from schools and universities from all over th...

1. Costs and enrollment

In order to participate, students are required to fill out the application form. In the event of their acceptance, they are required to send in a 30% deposit of the total program fee in order to reserve their spot. All courses offerred are not for profit, as the Academy Vi...

1. Costs and enrollment

In order to participate, students are required to fill out the application form. In the event of their acceptance, they are required to send in a 30% deposit of the total program fee in order to reserve their spot. All courses offerred are not for profit, as the Academy Vi...

1. Online courses

1.1. Costs and enrollment

In order to participate, students are required to fill out the application form. In the event of
their acceptance, they are required to send in a 30% deposit of the total program fee in order to
reserve their spot. All courses offerred are not for pr...

1. Costs and enrollment

In order to participate, students are required to fill out the application form. In the event of their acceptance, they are required to send in a 30% deposit of the total program fee in order to reserve their spot. All courses offerred are not for profit, as the Academy Vi...

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The life of the Academy and the studies of the young men who live there depend in large part on the spontaneous and selfless support of several friends and collaborators; on the now exhausted financial resources of its founders; on the proceeds of the publishing house u...

The Academy Vivarium novum

Brief description

The Academy Vivarium Novum, located in Frascati, just outside Rome, is an international study centre inspired by the teaching methodologies of Renaissance schools, where students from all over the world are provided with a solid preparation in the humanities, arts and sciences, and are formed in the values of dignity and humanitas.

Thanks to the support of the Ministry of University and Research and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Academy is based in the magnificent Villa Falconieri, long ascribed to the genius of Borromini, where fifty students from every continent are welcomed each year for a residential program, and where conferences, lectures, concerts, theatrical performances, art exhibitions and cultural activities are organized for the wider public, completely free of charge.

In addition to the International School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the Academy promotes scientific research in collaboration with Italian and foreign universities, and runs the Center for the Renaissance of the Visual Arts "Poikile", the Centre for the Study of Nature, Humanity and the Unity of Thought, and the *Study Centre for the History of Intercultural Relations*.

Villa Falconieri

Short history

The Villa Falconieri, first among today’s Tusolan villas, was built in the mid 1500s on the site of an ancient Roman villa at the behest of Bishop Alessandro Rufini of Melfi. Pope Paul III Farnese, as a medal that he minted for the restoration o...

Villa Falconieri

Short history

The Villa Falconieri, first among today’s Tusolan villas, was built in the mid 1500s on the site of an ancient Roman villa at the behest of Bishop Alessandro Rufini of Melfi. Pope Paul III Farnese, as a medal that he minted for the restoration o...

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-tuition scholarships for high school students (16-18 years old) and twenty-eight full-tuition scholarships for University students (18-24 years old) of any part of the world. The scholarships will cover all of the costs of room, board in male dorms, teaching and didactic materials for courses to be held from October 2026 until June 2027 on the grounds of the Academy’s campus at Villa Falconieri (Frascati - Rome).

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-tuition scholarships for high school students (16-18 years old) and twenty-eight full-tuition scholarships for University students (18-24 years old) of any part of the world. The scholarships will cover all of the costs of room, board in male dorms, teaching and didactic materials for courses to be held from October 2025 until June 2026 on the grounds of the Academy’s campus at Villa Falconieri (Frascati - Rome).

Admission

Pupils from sixteen to twenty-five years of age are admitted to the Academy. Room, board and classes are sustained through scholarships. Each year no more than forty students are accepted in the male boarding school for the annual program (from October to mid-June). Finally, all students...

All these [edifices] should possess strength, utility, and beauty. Strength arises from solid foundations built deeply within the ground and using materials chosen with care and without parsimony. Utility arises from a functional distribution of the inner spaces, so that their purpose be duly an...

The Fondazione Accademia Vivarium novum ETS, within the scope of its activities in the calendar year 2024, thanks to generous co-funding approved by the Fondazione Roma, is offering 12 (twelv...

The Academy Vivarium novum, in cooperation with the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, announces a competition for two research grants, amounting to 12,000 euros gross each, for young graduates and PhDs in philosophical, historical, literary, artistic and scientific disciplines, to car...

Rules

Basic rules

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-tuition scholarships for high school students (16-18 years old) and twenty-eight full-tuition scholarships for University students (18-24 years old) of any part of the world. The scholarships will cover all of the costs of room, board in male dorms, teaching and didactic materials for courses to be held from October 2023 until June 2024 on the grounds of the Academy’s campus at Villa Falconieri (Frascati - Rome).

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-tuition scholarships for high school students (16-18 years old) and twenty-eight full-tuition scholarships for University students (18-24 years old) of any part of the world. The scholarships will cover all of the costs of room, board in male dorms...

This year many people will not be able to travel and will not have the opportunity to study classical languages abroad. Therefore, the Academy Vivarium novum would like to grant 15 scholarships to those who would like to participate in our on-line ancient languages and literature courses.

Cl...

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-tuition scholarships for high school students (16-18 years old) and twenty-eight full-tuition scholarships for University students (18-24 years old) of any part of the world. The scholarships will cover all of the costs of room, board in male dorms...

This year many people will not be able to travel during Summer, and will not have the opportunity to study classical languages abroad. Therefore, the Academy Vivarium novum would like to grant 20 scholarships to those who would like to participate in our on-line ancient languages and literature co...

School for Advanced Studies:
On nature and human condition: changes, questions and perspectives

Organized by the Centre for the study of nature, humanity and the unity of thought
and by Accademia Vivarium novum

Themes

• Nature, landscape, environment and ecodynamics: from evolution...

School for Advanced Studies:
On nature and human condition: changes, questions and perspectives

Organized by the Centre for the study of nature, humanity and the unity of thought
and by Accademia Vivarium novum

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering forty full-tuition scholarships for...

The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-tuition scholarships for high school students (16-18 years old) and twenty-eight full-tuition scholarships for University students (18-24 years old) of any part of the world. The scholarships will cover all of the costs of room, board in male dorms, teaching and didactic materials for courses to be held from October 2019 until June 2020 on the grounds of the Academy’s campus at Villa Falconieri (Frascati - Rome).

Workshops and discussions on the philosophy of nature and humanistic studies

Sponsored by the Centre for the study of nature, humanity, and the unity of thought

Nature, living beings, and man are not machines: a critique of trans-human and post-human ideology through scientific, philosophical and literary explorations.

Villa Falconieri, Frascati
3 - 10 February 2019

Teachers:

Francesco Adornato (Università di Macerata)
Ignacio Armella Chávez (Accademia Vivarium novum)
Novella Bellucci (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Remo Bodei (Scuola normale superiore di Pisa, Accademia dei Lincei and UCLA − Los Angeles)
Luciano Boi (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Mauro Carfora (Università di Pavia)
Giulio Maria Chiodi (Istituto universitario “Suor Orsola Benincasa”, Naples)
Biagio De Giovanni (Università “L’Orientale” di Napoli)
Franco D’Intino (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Paolo Ercolani (Università d’Urbino “Carlo Bo”)
Giulio Ferroni (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Françoise Graziani Giacobbi (Université de Corse “Pascal Paoli” and Fédération de recherche interdisciplinaire environnement et société)
Flavio Keller (Università Campus bio-medico, Rome)
Paolo Maddalena (former Vice-President of the Constitutional Court)
Lamberto Maffei (Scuola normale superiore di Pisa and Accademia dei Lincei)
Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS, Rome)
Luigi Miraglia (Accademia Vivarium novum)
Giuseppe Mussardo (Scuola internazionale superiore di studi avanzati, Trieste)
Giorgio Parisi (Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and Accademia dei Lincei)
Olga Pombo (University of Lisbon)
Tiziana Provvidera (University college London and Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici)
Antonio Rostagno (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences)