Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana
The Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana was founded in 1768 by Maria Theresa von Habsburg , Empress of Austria , and is the most prestigious institution in the city of Mantua in Italy .
Its predecessor institution was called the Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere and was divided into various disciplines and classes based on the model of a university. It has its origins in the tradition of cultural societies that go back to the Gonzaga family (as in the case of the Accademia dei Invitti , which was later renamed Accademia dei Timidi ). Napoleon Bonaparte had her named Virgiliana in honor of Virgil . In 1983 the academy added the term Nazionale to its name.
The Academy is housed in a Palazzo from the Cinquecento that was restored by the neoclassical architect Paolo Pozzo . Inside is the theater of Antonio Bibiena , opened in 1769 , where Mozart performed on January 16, 1770 when he was thirteen.
Today the academy has 120 members and is divided into three classes: Literature and Arts, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Practical Philosophy. In addition to the annual Atti e Memorie magazine , the academy publishes various book series that are published by the Leo S. Olschki publishing house in Florence . The current president is the professor of medicine Giorgio Zamboni , who succeeded the Latinist Giorgio Bernardi Perini .
List of presidents
- Carlo Ottavio di Colloredo (1768–1786)
- Giambattista Gherardo d'Arco (1786–1791)
- Girolamo Murari della Corte (1792–1798)
- Angelo Petrozzani (1798–1801)
- Girolamo Murari della Corte (1801-1832)
- Federico Cocastelli di Montiglio (1834–1847)
- Antonio Guidi di Bagno (1847-1865)
- Adelelmo Cocastelli di Montiglio (1865–1867)
- Giovanni Arrivabene (1867-1881)
- Giambattista Intra (1881-1907)
- Antonio Carlo dall'Acqua (1907–1928)
- Pietro Torelli (1929-1948)
- Eugenio Masè Dari (1948–1961)
- Vittore Colorni (1961–1972)
- Eros Benedini (1972-1991)
- Claudio Gallico (1991-2006)
- Giorgio Bernardi Perini (2006-2009)
- Giorgio Zamboni (2009-2011)
- Piero Gualtierotti (2011-)
See also
literature
- M. Maylender, Storia delle accademie d'Italia , (5 vols., Bologna 1926–1930)