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 prof...

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...

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 V...

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 V...

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).

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...

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 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...

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

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To our benefactors

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 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 evolutionar...

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 an...