Antonio Virgili | |
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| President of the Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Vice President of the Lazarus Union | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
| Profession | professor,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]
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]
Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies)
Commander of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (House of Braganza)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia (Bagrationi dynasty)
Bronze Medal of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies)
Knight of the Order of Merit of Savoy (House of Savoy)| International | |
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