Vatican
City, 8 November 2013 (VIS) – This morning a press conference was
held in the Holy See Press Office to present the first issue of the
new series of the journal “Latinitas”, published by the
Pontifical Academy Latinitas, instituted by Pope Benedict XVI in
November 2012. The speakers were Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi,
president of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Professor Ivano
Dionigi, president of the Pontifical Academy for Latin and rector of
the University of Bologna, and the writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi.
The
first issue will include an article responding to the questions,
“Latin for whom? Why Latin?” by the new director Ivano Dionigi,
following an epigraph dedicated to Pope Francis.
The
journal is divided into three sections: scientific (“Historica et
philologica”); “Humaniora”, dedicated to contemporary
literature in Latin, and “Ars docendi”, which considers didactic
issues related to classical languages and cultures, ranging from
antiquity to the present day.
The
volume is completed by an appendix in Latin with “Breves de
Academiae vita notitiae”, a brief summary of the main activities of
the academy, the “Argumenta” or abstracts of the contributions to
the journal in accordance with current international norms for
scientific publications, and a useful “Index universus”. The new
“Latinitas” will publish articles in Latin and, for the first
time, in Italian and other languages.
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