2000 - 2018

From 1988 to 2000 Luigi Vittorio taught International Relations at LUISS, where also thanks to the contribution of some of his students he succeeded in putting together a “Handbook of Italian Foreign Policy” [Bari-Rome, Laterza, 1995 and later reprint], which is judged a reference work cited in many studies on Italian foreign policy. He simultaneously teaches at the University of Trieste (Gorizia Pole) in the degree courses in “Diplomatic and International Sciences” (which he, together with Prof. Paola Pagnini, helped initiate) and in “International Relations and Strategic Studies” until 2002.

 

He taught International Relations both at the University of Roma Tre from 2001 until 2008 and at the University of Valle d'Aosta from 2007 to 2011 (here he was also a member of the Technical Committee for the establishment of the Faculty of Political and International Sciences). He collaborated for two years with the chair of “History of Eastern Europe” at “Sapienza” in Rome.

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During the same years he was constantly invited to give seminars and lectures at the Universities of Florence, Macerata, Perugia, Turin, Pavia, Milan, Naples, Messina, and Urbino, also at the School of Journalism, Scuola Normale and Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa. In his university activities he was highly esteemed by his colleagues and was much followed by his students, with many of whom deep human relationships were also born, which lasted even beyond his university career.

 

After all, as thesis supervisor or co-rapporteur, Luigi Vittorio can count more than 700 projects, many of which are preserved at the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI), LUISS and Roma Tre. He also maintains university contacts in Germany, obtaining teaching positions in Jena and Dresden between 1990 and 1993 with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

 

Between 1987 and 2018, there are numerous invitations to speak at Conventions and Conferences, including in Germany, thanks to the prestige gained as an Ambassador. Essays and articles include more than 400 titles, published in various Journals and newspapers, including Il Messaggero, L'Indipendente and Italia Oggi. Mention should also be made of his decisive action in establishing the Italian-German Center for European Excellence, located at Villa Vigoni in Loveno di Menaggio (Como), of which he was president from 1986 until 2002.

 

He also served as Vice President of the “Centro Alti Studi Europei” in Urbino in 1992 , Vice President (1994) and later President (2000 - 2007) of both the Circolo di Studi Diplomatici in Rome and the CISCI (Centro italiano di Studi per la Conciliazione Comitato); also served on the Steering Committee of the “Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics” in Paris-Nicosia (2004 - 2007); was Advisor to the European Academy in Nicosia; was a member of the Goethe Prize Committee of the Toepfer Stiftung in Hamburg (2001 - 2011); was Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the “University for the Elderly” and then “Free University for Adults” in Senigallia (since 1997).

 

On May 4, 1988 he was awarded an Honorary Degree in Law by Bielefeld University at the proposal of Professor Grunsky. He received on October 27, 1990, the “Witnesses of Time” award as part of the Acqui Storia prize for his book on Germany and in April 2002 the Silver Medal of Merit in Culture. On July 14, 2002, he was awarded honorary citizenship of Ostra (Ancona), the municipality where Vaccarile's family home is located.

 

The funeral was celebrated on November 16, 2018 at the Church of St. Peter the Apostle in Vaccarile. Present at the funeral were the family and a large participating and moved crowd of friends, acquaintances and admirers both local and from many cities such as Rome, Custoza, Gorizia and Trieste. He rests at Turin's Monumental Cemetery in the family tomb next to his beloved wife Giovanna.