Antonio Virgili

Antonio Virgili
President of the Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro
Assumed office
2009
Vice President of the Lazarus Union
Assumed office
2014
Personal details
Alma materUniversity of Naples Federico II
Professionprofessor, researcher and consultant

Antonio Virgili (born in Naples, 1957)[1] is an Italian social sciences and integrative medicine professor, researcher, and consultant. He is the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Social Sciences, president of the Centro Studi Internazionali, president of Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro, and vice president of the Lazarus Union. In 2019, he was appointed by the High Council of the Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice as an Honorary Judge at Youth Courts.[2] He has authored numerous articles,[3] essays, and books,[4] and is a scholar of esotericism[5] and heraldic and symbology studies.[6] He is also the second duke of Castelvenere. He inherited the title from his father: Fernando Virgili the first duke of Castelvenere.[7]

Career

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After a period of field research in 1983, Virgili obtained a position as a professor of social psychology and methodology of social research at the Higher Institute of Sociology. He was a collaborator at the University of Naples Federico II, and also chairman for medical anthropology of the International Council of Integrative Medicine in Australia. He was among the founding members of the Asian Population Association and the Victimology Support International Observatory and Network-VISION[8] as the coordinator of the department for "Stress, post-traumatic stress and DAS".

He is currently the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Social Sciences and the Center of International Studies; Professor of neuro-social sexology at UNISED,[9] and professor at the university centre UNILUDES (Lugano). He is also a researcher and consultant in social sciences, neurosciences[10][11] and clinical reflexology.[12]

Virgili has authored over fifty essays and scientific articles and has worked with various newspapers. He has lectured at dozens of conferences for disseminating science[13] and collaborated with Rotary International,[14] Lions Club International[15] and Kiwanis.

He is a member of The Society of the Friends of St. George's,[16] the Istituto Italiano per l´Africa e l´Oriente; the Society for Geographical Studies, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Italian Society of Economics Demography and Statistics, the European Sociological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He is the chairman of the Culture Commission at LIDU (Italian League for Human Rights)[17] and one of the international vice presidents of the Lazarus Union (International NGO).[18]

As an artist he has exhibited his photos in cities like New York, Paris, Malta, and Tokyo.[19]

Honors and awards

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Books

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  • Modernizzazione e transizione demografica, ISS, Napoli, 1982
  • Il personale delle Unità Sanitarie Locali in Campania (co-autore), CNITE, Roma, 1984
  • La contraccezione nelle adolescenti" (co-autore con F. ferraro), Ricerca Medica Ed., 1984
  • Trasformazioni urbane e domanda di integrazione spaziale: il caso della 167 di Secondigliano (co-autore), LAN/FORMEZ, Napoli, 1985
  • Saggi scelti, Ed. Accad. Pontzen, Napoli, 1996
  • L´Øresund: regione transfrontaliera della nuova Europa, Mem. Geografiche, Univ. Firenze, 1996
  • Itinerari di scienze sociali, Ed. CSI, Napoli, 1999
  • Storia dell'Ordine militare e ospedaliere di San Giovanni d'Acri e San Tommaso, Ediz. Anselmi, Napoli, 1999
  • New perspectives in teaching activity: artificial environments and new technologies, Working Papers, Arion, 2001
  • La rivoluzione silenziosa, Ed. CSI/Anselmi, Napoli, 2002. ISBN 88-88393-005
  • La bottega dei saperi: percorsi tra storia e geografia (co-autore), Ediz. IRRE, Napoli, 2002
  • Il fantasma del localismo, Ummarino Editore, Napoli, 2003
  • Aspetti dell'eredità bizantina, Ed. OSS/CSI, Napoli 2003
  • La formazione a distanza, Ed. CERGE, Napoli 2004[20]
  • La tradizione napoleonica, Ed. CSI, Napoli, 2005. ISBN 88-88393-013
  • Lessons of Clinical Reflexology, RS Ed., (I ed.), 2007
  • Culti misterici ed orientali a Pompei, Gangemi, Roma, 2008. ISBN 978-88-492-1409-3
  • Prevenzione, benessere e medicina integrativa, (Dispense corso seminariale), Ediz. El., 2010
  • Nuove frontiere della ricerca psico-socio-sanitaria, (Dispense corso seminariale) Ediz. El., 2011
  • Benessere e prevenzione: l'apporto delle neuroscienze, (Dispense corso seminariale) Ediz. El., 2012
  • Stress e sistemi corporei nell'approccio pnei, CSI, Napoli, 2013
  • Diffusione e sintomatologia dei disturbi da stress post-traumatico, Aggiornamenti di studio, 2013
  • Dalle relazioni mente corpo alle relazioni interpersonali, (Dispense corso seminariale) Ediz.El, 2014
  • Neurosociologia e neuroscienze applicate, CSI, Napoli, 2014

References

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  1. ^ "Antonio Virgili". Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  2. ^ "bandi di concorso". Archived from the original on 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
  3. ^ Some of them available in international indexes, for ex.: http://popindex.princeton.edu/browse/v53/n1/f.html
  4. ^ See for further references: http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?db=solr_iccu&resultForward=opac/iccu/brief.jsp&from=1&nentries=10&searchForm=opac/iccu/error.jsp&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&item:5032:Nomi::@frase@=IT\ICCU\CFIV\200920; http://www.internetculturale.it/opencms/ricercaExpansion.jsp?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=Virgili%2C+Antonio+%3C1957-++++%3E&channel__contributor=Virgili%2C+Antonio+%3C1957-++++%3E&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR Archived 2015-01-04 at the Wayback Machine; https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2467991A/Antonio_Virgili;
  5. ^ See for example the ESSWE official website: http://www.esswe.org/#members/323/index.html
  6. ^ Member of some Heraldry and Genealogical societies, his interest is mainly European heraldry, for example see: "2004". Archived from the original on 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2015-01-15. International Journal of History,The Augustan Society, Orlando (USA),2008; Blasonario della nobilta' napoleonica in Italia, Ed. The Sailing Ship, 2008; Dacia, Copenhagen, 2004
  7. ^ See U.S. Heraldic Registry:{Cite web|url=https://usheraldicregistry.com/index.php?n=Registrations.20150217A – US Heraldic Registry Archives}
  8. ^ See the article of presentation: http://www.ulixesnews.it/?p=232 Archived 2015-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ See the organizational structure of UNISED at "Organizzazione - UNIVERSITA' INTERNAZIONALE UNISED - Criminologia Investigazione Scienze Forensi Security". Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
  10. ^ See about some of his activities at http://www.soma-psiche.org/training-and-cme-courses.html
  11. ^ or also: http://www.sipneicampania.org/virgili-dott-antonio.html Archived 2014-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Mainly working in the field of research on the clinical applications of reflexology: Studio Di Biomed[permanent dead link] of Reflexologists Professional Members, United Kingdom 2007; Reflexology Studio
  13. ^ Obtaining the Silver Medal of the Italian Society for the Advancement of Sciences (SIPS, Roma); See also: Five Thousand Personalities of the World, ABI, Raleigh, 1996; Marquis Who's Who in the World, NJ, 1995; Christian professionals of the working world, Milan, 2005; International Who's Who of Intellectuals, IBC, Cambridge, 1997; Rotary Firenze; Profumi del Mediterraneo
  14. ^ Meetings, Rotary Club Florence, 37, 2009
  15. ^ See: Lions District 108YA Yearbook 2012; Lions Club Napoli Europa Gianpaolo Cajati
  16. ^ Annual Report 2006, The Society of St George, Windsor Castle (UK)
  17. ^ Scarpa R., Storia, figure ed azione della Lega Italiana dei Diritti dell'Uomo, Stango Editore, Arezzo, 2015; Calchetti G.,Lorenzelli S., Testimonianza: iniziative, documenti, deliberati, Begliomini, Roma, 2010; see also LIDU official website "Organigramma". Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
  18. ^ See Lazarus Union official website http://www.lazarus-union.net/about-us/struktur/executive-[permanent dead link]commitee/?lang=en
  19. ^ See, among the others: Art and thoughts without frontiers, Neapolis Academy, Naples, 1994; COMED Yearbook 1995, Reasoned Fine Arts, Milan, 1994; Dictionary of International Biography, IBC, Cambridge, 1996; Pontzen's academicians, Pontzen Academy, 1991
  20. ^ "Girolamo Aleandro / A. Virgili". 25 May 2020.
  • A Guide to Masters, CSO, Milan, 1996
  • A Guide to Masters, CSO, Milan, 1997
  • Marquis Who'Who in the World, NJ, 1997