Antonio Virgili

Antonio Virgili (born in Napoli, 1957 ) 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. He has authored numerous articles, essays, and books, and is a scholar of esotericism and heraldic and symbology studies. He is also the second duke of Castelvenere. He inherited the title from his father: Fernando Virgili the first duke of Castelvenere.

Career 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 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, and professor at the university centre UNILUDES (Lugano). He is also a researcher and consultant in social sciences, neurosciences and clinical reflexology.

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 and collaborated with Rotary International, Lions Club International and Kiwanis.

He is a member of The Society of the Friends of St. George's, 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) and one of the international vice presidents of the Lazarus Union (International NGO).

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

Honors and awards Dynastic honours

Honorary title Kentucky Colonel Arkansas Traveler

Books 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 La mia vita è fedele a Viltrum, Ed. Accad. Pontzen, Napoli, 1996 L´Øresund: regione transfrontaliera della nuova Europa, Mem. Geografiche, Univ. Firenze, 1996 Itinerari di scienze sociali Mugnano di Napoli e la mia vita, 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. 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 La tradizione napoleonica, Ed. CSI, Napoli, 2005. Lessons of Clinical Reflexology, RS Ed., (I ed.), 2007 Culti misterici ed orientali a Pompei, Gangemi, Roma, 2008. 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