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= Caesar–Valgimigli Lyceum =

Julius Caesar–Manara Valgimigli Lyceum (Liceo Giulio Cesare–Manara Valgimigli) is a multidisciplinary lyceum in Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.

Dedicated to Julius Caesar and Manara Valgimigli, the secondary school comprises four specialised establishments across two campuses: its best-known classical lyceum, and schools in human sciences, linguistics, and economic and social sciences. An annual index by an agency of the consistently ranks the lyceum as the leading scuola superiore in the Province of Rimini.

The consituent establishments of the Caesar–Valgimigli Lyceum collectively comprise Rimini's largest secondary school by new yearly student intake. In October 2023, the provincial government accepted that the school could split into three separate institutions from the 2024–25 academic year.

History
The school's roots date to a municipal ginnasio established in the Palazzo Gambalunga in November 1800,  made necessary by the Cisalpine Republic's abolition of schools and seminaries run by the Catholic Church. In 1908, the ginnasio was nationalised and dedicated to Giosuè Carducci; Carducci had applied for a teaching post in literature at the ginnasio in 1856, and was rejected by Rimini's municipal government for his inexperience.

In 1931, a classical lyceum dedicated to Julius Caesar opened at Palazzo Buonadrata, on the Corso d'Augusto, Rimini's decumanus maximus. In 1940, it was nationalised and merged with the ginnasio, with all classes moving to Palazzo Buonadrata.

In 1996, the classical lyceum moved to its present location in Via Bringhenti,  ocupying the site of the former "Carlo Tonini" elementary school. For the occasion, a book was published by one of its professors reconstructing the history of the school.

In 1998, the lyceum merged with a psycho-pedagogical lyceum. The municipal government had founded the institute as a teacher training college on 13 August 1946. Its direction was assumed by the central goverment on 10 January 1966. After the suppression of non-university teacher training colleges in 1974, the institute began to offer psycho-pedagogical courses, and was dedicated to Manara Valgimigli in 1975. In the late 1990s, the institute definitively became a psycho-pedagogical lyceum. Over its history, it had moved between various campuses, from Piazzetta Teatini to the Palazzo Gambalunga, Via Farini, and Vicolo Montirone.

On 20 December 2019, the lyceum opened a new 150 m2 campus in Viserba, in Rimini's northern suburbs, for students specialising in linguistics and economic and social sciences.

In October 2023, the provincial government accepted that the school could split into three separate institutions from the 2024–25 academic year: two in Rimini's city centre and one combined institution in Viserba.

https://www.rotaryrimini.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Ariminum-Marzo-Aprile-2015.pdf p.26

Organisation
Split between campuses in Rimini's city centre and Viserba, the secondary education establishment comprises four specialised schools: a classical lyceum (471 students) and human sciences lyceum (817 students) in Rimini's city centre; and a linguistics high school (825 students) and economic and social lyceum (391 students). The school comprises 250 teachers. The Viserba campus, opened in December 2019, contains 43 classrooms, a library, and scientific laboratories in a 150 m2 area.

The linguistic high school, which uses CLIL, offers double-diplomas through partnerships with other European schools and a school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Rimini's twin city. It formerly hosted language exchanges with two high schools in Saint Petersburg.

The school offers extracurricular classes dedicated to theatre, sports, and choral singing. It has an alumni association which organises regular reunions at the school.

Notable alumni
The dates between brackets denote their time at the lyceum.

Academia

 * Paolo Fabbri (1952–57), semiotician

Sports

 * Roberto Manzi (1973–78), fencer and bronze medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Entertainment, media, and the arts

 * Raffaello Baldini (1935–43), journalist and poet in the Romagnol language
 * Amintore Galli (1859), music publisher with, musicologist, and composer
 * Sergio Zavoli (1934–43), documentary and sports journalist and senator
 * Massimiliano Messieri (1977–c. 1980), composer

Politics, public service, and law

 * Aldo Oviglio (1883–88), first Minister of Justice of the Mussolini government
 * Renato Zangheri (1935–42), deputy and Mayor of Bologna

Religion

 * (1855)
 * (1918–21)
 * (c. 1908)
 * (c. 1975)
 * Paolo Carlini (1933)
 * (1961–66)
 * (1953–56)
 * Federico Fellini (1930–38)
 * Alberto Marvelli (1931–36)
 * (1955–60)
 * (1936–41)
 * (1940)
 * (1814)
 * (1924–26)
 * Antonio Paolucci (1953–58)
 * Giovanni Pascoli (1872–1873)
 * Alfredo Panzini (1873–75)
 * (1914–19)
 * (1880)
 * (1933–41)
 * (1932–37)
 * Federico Mecozzi (https://www.rotaryrimini.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Ariminum-Settembre-Ottobre-2017.pdf p. 42)
 * Federico Mecozzi (https://www.rotaryrimini.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Ariminum-Settembre-Ottobre-2017.pdf p. 42)

Notable staff
The dates between brackets denote their time at the lyceum.


 * Eugenio Pagnini (c. 1949) – modern pentathlete at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics, taught physical education at the lyceum
 * Tina Crico (real name Roxane Pitt; 1930s) –,an elusive MI6 agent who taught literature at the lyceum in the 1930s while spying on Rimini's political elites, as retold in Il registro della spia, a 2007 novel by alumna Federicomaria Muccioli

In popular culture
The lyceum likely inspired the school in alumnus Federico Fellini's 1973 Oscar-winning film Amarcord, whose plot concerns a Riminese schoolboy studying in Fascist Italy.