Luigi Miraglia (born 28 October 1965) (

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: Aloisius Miraglia) is an

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and

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. He is a proponent of

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's natural method of

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and the founder of the

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Biography

Miraglia is a grandson of the nineteenth century Italian

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and politician Luigi Miraglia. Miraglia attended the Classical Lyceum Umberto I in

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, afterwards studying at the

University of Naples Federico II The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

and

University of Salerno The University of Salerno ( it, Università degli Studi di Salerno, UNISA) is a university located in Fisciano and in Baronissi, Italy. Its main campus is located in Fisciano while the Faculty of Medicine is located in Baronissi. It is organized ...

. In 1989, he became the director of the journal ''Il trifoglio'', and in 1989 became a didactic consultant at the European Language Institute in

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. Since 1996 he has been the director of the

, first in

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and, since 2009, in

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. During the 2009–2010 academic year, he taught "Elements of Latin Conversation and Composition and Living Latinity" at the Pontificial Superior Institute for Latin (

: ''Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis''), followed by courses on "Medieval Latin Literature" and "Internship to Classical Language Teachers". Since 2011, he has been a member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae; since 2012, he has been a member of the

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References

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