Ap­pli­ca­tion let­ters must be sent to candidati@​vivariumnovum.​net by July 10. For early con­sid­er­a­tion, ap­pli­ca­tions sent by May 31 will re­ceive an an­swer at the be­gin­ning of July. Oth­er­wise, can­di­dates will re­ceive a re­sponse be­fore the end of Au­gust.

The courses will be as fol­lows:

- Latin lan­guage (fun­da­men­tal and ad­vanced)

- Greek lan­guage (fun­da­men­tal and ad­vanced)

- Latin com­po­si­tion

- Roman His­tory

- An­cient Latin lit­er­a­ture

- His­tory of an­cient Phi­los­o­phy

- Re­nais­sance and Neo-Latin lit­er­a­ture

- Latin and Greek music and po­etry

- Clas­sics read­ing sem­i­nars

The goal is to achieve a per­fect com­mand of both Latin and Greek through a total im­mer­sion in the two lan­guages in order to mas­ter with­out any hin­drances the texts and con­cepts which have been handed down from the an­cient times, mid­dle ages, the Re­nais­sance pe­riod and mod­ern era, and to cul­ti­vate the hu­man­i­ties in a man­ner sim­i­lar to the Re­nais­sance hu­man­ists.

All the classes will be con­ducted in Latin, ex­cept for Greek classes which will be con­ducted in an­cient Greek.

In the let­ter the prospec­tive stu­dent should in­di­cate the fol­low­ing:


1. Full name;


2. Date and lo­ca­tion of birth;


3. What school you cur­rently at­tend;

4. How long you have stud­ied Latin and/or Greek;


5. Which au­thors and works you have read;


6. Other stud­ies and pri­mary in­ter­ests out­side of school.


In ad­di­tion, please at­tach a re­cent pho­to­graph and a copy of your pass­port or your ID card.

(For more in­for­ma­tion about the Acad­emy, you may visit the web­site www.​vivariumnovum.​net or read the pre­sen­ta­tion: www.​vivariumnovum.​net/​presentation)