Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

Coordinates: 45°25′58″N 12°19′48″E / 45.43277°N 12.32994°E

Palace Loredan campo Santo Stefano
Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti

The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA) stems from the Reale Istituto Nazionale, created by Napoleon for the Kingdom of Italy in 1810. The current name was given in 1838 by Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, when Venetia was under Austrian Government. In 1866, after the annexation of Venetia to Kingdom of Italy, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti was recognized as one of the most prestigious Italian Academies. Since 1838, the activity of Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti run uninterruptedly till nowadays.

The first seat of the IVSLA was Palazzo Ducale then it transferred, in 1893, to Palazzo Loredan. In 1999 it was bought Palazzo Franchetti, and it inaugurated in 2004.

Structure

The Institute accounts for 290 fellows, divided in two Classes (Class of Sciences and Class of Humanities); each Class is made of fellows (soci effettivi), corresponding fellows (soci corrispondenti), foreign fellows (soci stranieri) and honorary fellows (soci onorari). Fellows are formally appointed by the Ministry of Cultural Affaires after being elected by the Assembly of the soci effettivi.

Activity

The Institute’s activities include monthly academic meetings (adunanze), where fellows present their studies to be published on the magazine «Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti». The Institute also regularly promotes meetings, conferences and seminars on Sciences, Humanities and Art. The Institute publishes and prints books (presently the catalogue accounts over 100 titles). Particular attention is devoted to diffusion of culture by audiovisual media, information technology and internet communications. The Institute owns a rich library (over 300.000 volumes) and several archives, including that of Luigi Luzzatti, Italian prime minister in 1911.

Partnership

Italians

Internationals

Notable members

Class of Sciences

Massimiliano Aloisi, Roberto Ardigò, Giovanni Canestrini, Vittorio Cini, Giuseppe Colombo, Giorgio Dal Piaz, Antonio Favaro, Galileo Ferraris, Augusto Ghetti, Tullio Levi Civita, Fedele Lampertico, Guglielmo Marconi, Angelo Messedaglia, Umberto Nobile, Pietro Paleocapa, Louis Pasteur, Antonio Pacinotti, Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, Giuseppe Jappelli, Alessandro Rossi, Paul Sabatier, Quintino Sella.

Class of Humanities

Carlo Anti, Feliciano Benvenuti, Bernard Berenson, Camillo Boito, Vittore Branca, Giosuè Carducci, Fernand Braudel, Antonio Canova, Luigi Carrer, André Chastel, Carlo Cipolla, Benedetto Croce, Francesco De Sanctis, Giacomo Devoto, Carlo Diano, Aldo Ferrabino, Francesco Ferrara, Giuseppe Fiocco, Antonio Fogazzaro, Gianfranco Folena, Giuseppe Gerola, Virgilio Guidi, Ferdinand Gregorovius, René Huyghe, Frederic C. Lane, Luigi Luzzatti, Francesco Malipiero, Terenzio Mamiani, Alessandro Manzoni, Concetto Marchesi, Luigi Meneghello, Jules Michelet, Marco Minghetti, Pompeo Molmenti, Theodor Mommsen, Costantino Nigra, Pierre de Nolhac, Ugo Ojetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Gaston Palewski, Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, Leopold von Ranke, Alfred von Reumont, Ettore Romagnoli, Antonio Rosmini, Luigi Settembrini, Nicolò Tommaseo, Diego Valeri, Manara Valgimigli, Pasquale Villari, Giacomo Zanella.

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