About us 
Schola Humanistica is an Institute for the Study and Appreciation of Classical Culture. We are specialized in teaching Latin and Greek through didactic methodologies inspired by the teaching practices of the humanists. All of our activities aim not only at promoting the study of classical languages, but also at disseminating the knowledge of Neo-Latin works. Moreover, our Institute pays particular attention to the reception of classical literature in Renaissance Italy.
All methods used at the Schola Humanistica are inspired by the teaching practices of the humanists, that is, of the learned men of the XV-XVII centuries, who wrote and spoke Latin, and partly Greek, as a language of international culture. According to a recent estimate, about 5 million volumes have been written in Latin from Antiquity to the present. A real Humanistic School will now make this cultural heritage of Europe finally accessible.
Our lecturers

Giuseppe Marcellino
Executive Director

Paolo Pezzuolo
Director of Instruction

Chiara Kravina
Instructor

Claudio Griggio
Academic consultant

Edoardo Benati
Academic consultant
Stefano U. Baldassarri
ISI Florence
Riccardo Battocchio
Almo Collegio Capranica
Claudio Griggio
Università di Udine
Francesco Furlan
CNRS Paris
James Hankins
Harvard University
Pierre Laurens
Sorbonne University
Ermanno Malaspina
Università di Torino
Claudia Märtl
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Laura Orsi
Franklin University Switzerland
Giuliano Pisani
Accademia Galileiana
Camena Medicea
September 16th - November 4th, 2022
The Joust of Giuliano de’ Medici in the Latin poetry of the Renaissance
Νεφέλαι
March 12th, 2021- May 7th, 2022
Strepsiades' adventures and the parody of Socrates
Lemuria
First Course: Lemuria. December 2021
Ghost, Demons and Black Magic in Latin Literature
Latinitas Perpetua
Permanent – a two-part seminar every month
A program entirely in Latin with a focus on classical, medieval, and modern Latin literature
Cyclopes
Nov. 19th and Nov. 26th, 2021, h. 18:00-19:30 CET.
The monstrous forgers of gods (Virgil, Ovid, Pietro Carrera).
Britannia
Dec. 10th and Dec. 17th, 2021, h. 18:00-19:30 CET
Ethnography of ancient Britain (Caesar, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus).
Senex Corycius
Jan. 14th and 21st, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CET
The portrait of the Senex Corycius (Vergil, Horace, Giovanni Pascoli).
Porci Epicurei
Febr. 17th and 24th, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CET
Who were the Epicureans? (Lucretius, Horace, Cicero, Erasmus)
Xiphias
March 18th and 25th, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CET
Didacus Vitrioli's Latin poem on the swordfish (1845)
Pictores et philotechni
April 15th and 22nd, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CEST
Artists and collectors of Greece and Rome (Cicero, Horace, Pliny the Elder)
Reditus Augusti
May 20th and 27th, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CEST
Pascoli's poem which was awarded the gold medal at Amsterdam in 1897
De ignorantia
July 22nd and July 29th, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CEST
Petrarch's treatise "On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others"
De domo Ciceronis
Aug. 19th and Aug. 26th, 2022, h. 18:00-19:30 CEST
Cicero's speeches "Pro domo sua", "De haruspicum responso" and epistles.