Admissions to the School
To be admitted to the School, applicants must have a upper high school leaver’s certificate and pass an entrance exam.
Applications for the first year of the 2021-2023 course closed on 30 September 2021. Applicants should send a scan of the entrance exam application form complete with €16 tax stamp, in PDF format, exclusively via email to as-mi@cultura.gov.it, attaching a copy of an identity document.
The exam was held on 26 October 2021: applicants must show a valid COVID-19 GREEN PASS at the entrance to the institution before entering.
The exam consists of two tests.
Entrance exams must be passed with a minimum mark of 18/30 in each test.
A maximum of 30 students will be admitted. If more than 30 students pass the entrance exam, a ranking will be drawn up based on the marks from the two tests and the top 30 candidates will be admitted.
Audit students will only be admitted if less than 30 students are admitted and for as long as this number is not reached (form for 2021-2022).
Admission to the second year
Students that regularly attended the first year will have to register for the second year in September 2022, emailing the dedicated form complete with €16 tax stamp to the Secretary’s Office at as-mi@cultura.gov.it. The original form must be handed in during the first in-person lesson.
The direct admission to the second year of students who have taken a General Archivistics (9 credits), Palaeography (9 credits) or Diplomatics (9 credits) university exam, or an exam that includes Palaeography and Diplomatics (12 credits), is nonetheless subject to an assessment of the programme and the bibliography of the exams taken and the passing of the entrance exams (Latin translation and institutional history test) and conditional on the maximum number of students (30) not having already been reached. Also in this case, students may register for the second year entrance exam in September 2022, emailing the dedicated form complete with €16 tax stamp to the School Secretary’s Office at as-mi@cultura.gov.it. and attaching a copy of an identity document. The original form must be handed in on the day of the entrance exam.
The entrance exam for direct admission to the second year was held on Tuesday 18 October 2022 at 9.45 a.m. in the Conference Room.
The two exam tests:
1. translation into Italian of a medieval Latin text, (candidates are allowed to use a Latin dictionary during the Latin test). The text for admission to the current two-year course (Latin Test 2021, PDF, 256 KB) is included here by way of an example, together with those of previous years (texts PDF 2312 KB);
2. institutional history test with open-ended questions. The test covers the following topics:
- States, governments and territories of the 20th century. Medieval Lombardy. The era of the signorie and the principalities. Lombardy of the regional States in the European context. Lombardy and the birth of the modern state. Lombardy in the unified State.
- Historic institutions of the Kingdom of Italy and the Italian Republic.
- Ecclesiastical polity.
See the detailed programme and the reference bibliography (programme - PDF, 299 KB). The text for admission to the current two-year course (History test 2021, PDF, 481 KB) is included here by way of an example.
Entrance exams must be passed with a minimum mark of 18/30 in each test.
The 2022-2023 academic year was officially opened on Thursday 3 November 2022 at 2 p.m.
Audit students will only be admitted if less than 30 students are admitted and for as long as this number is not reached.
Last updated: 24/05/2024
