This is from News.va:
Presentation of the new journal “LATINITAS”
Vatican City, 8 November 2013 (VIS) – This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the first issue of the new series of the journal “Latinitas”, published by the Pontifical Academy Latinitas, instituted by Pope Benedict XVI in November 2012. The speakers were Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Professor Ivano Dionigi, president of the Pontifical Academy for Latin and rector of the University of Bologna, and the writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi.
The first issue will include an article responding to the questions, “Latin for whom? Why Latin?” by the new director Ivano Dionigi, following an epigraph dedicated to Pope Francis.
The journal is divided into three sections: scientific (“Historica et philologica”); “Humaniora”, dedicated to contemporary literature in Latin, and “Ars docendi”, which considers didactic issues related to classical languages and cultures, ranging from antiquity to the present day.
The volume is completed by an appendix in Latin with “Breves de Academiae vita notitiae”, a brief summary of the main activities of the academy, the “Argumenta” or abstracts of the contributions to the journal in accordance with current international norms for scientific publications, and a useful “Index universus”. The new “Latinitas” will publish articles in Latin and, for the first time, in Italian and other languages.
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Very cool, and thanks for sharing this. All kids should learn Latin. It is not hard. Part of our heritage as Catholics, and I am glad to see the language encouraged.
The article doesn’t say how to subscribe to the journal. Does anyone know how to do this?
Etiam notitiae mirabiles! His dictis, quomodo obtinere et legere ?
Salutationes omnibus.
I would like to read this journal.
Qua causa et cui litterae latinae?
-si linguam anglicam loquaris, etiam latinam loquaris. Guglielmus Victor et reges Angliae ad annum MCCCC gallicam, praepositi, judices et ministri latinam gestione regis locuti sunt;
-fundatores Conf. Statuum Am. Sept. qui universitates frequentabant, operibus Ciceronis, Virgilii, Horatii, Taciti lectis, erroribus republicae Romae intellectis, novam republicam instituere posse crederunt.
Salutationes omnibus.
I have checked the Vatican website and I see no way of subscribing. Anyone know how to do this?
I looked yesterday at the Holy See’s site, and the Pontifical Academy for Latin doesn’t even have a website. Perhaps one has to go to Libreria Editrice Vaticana to subscribe….
There are tantalizing glimpses of the new issue in this video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxLElu4kkxw
All I could find in a search for subscription information is a contact email address on this page –
http://www.cultura.va/content/cultura/en/collegamenti/accademie-pontificie/latinitas.html
As for how to subscribe, try writing in Italian or Hungarian to segreteria@latinitas.va. Or keep an eye on http://www.cultura.va/content/cultura/en/collegamenti/accademie-pontificie/latinitas.html.
Grad student reports on a summer in Rome learning to speak Latin:
Read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/08/vivat_latinitas.html
Why fret about hip-hop rhythms? It would be far more worth while, to know the Alcaic stanza, to memorize (for example)
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus, nunc Saliaribus
ornare pulvinar deorum
tempus erat dapibus, sodales.
(Horace on the fall of Cleopatra): Now ‘t is time to drink, now time to stomp the ground with unfettered foot, now time to adorn the table of the gods with Salian feasting, comrades. {Corrections and improvements of my attempt at translation welcome.)
Thank you, Patruus and Animadversor. My email is sent.
Visum.