"Cesare De Titta" Institute was conceived as a council school in 1937/38.

The three current courses of study "Linguistico", "Pedagogico" and "Scienze Sociali" are experimental and characterised by a "liceo" structure. Liceo Linguistico is languages-oriented; Liceo Pedagogico focuses on the study of pedagogy, psychology, sociology and methodology in the social-psycho-pedagogic research; Liceo delle Scienze Sociali aims at the study of social studies, that is to say the interactions amongst man, environment, society, modernity and contemporaneity.

This institute was one of the first schools to understand the importance of experimentalism, to make students aware of their human and cultural growth, to train them to tackle a more and more complex reality, which sometimes is contradictory. Students are trained in such a way that they are able to live in a "boundless" society, in a computer, technological and global universe.

What is offered by the institute goes beyond the teaching /learning process, it includes a lot of optional activities, which take place in the afternoon and are meant for all the three courses' students. There are quite a few projects going on during the school year such as the "Reading and Writing" project (including meetings with poets and writers), the Cinema and TV project, theatre and music workshops, intern ships, sports activities, Socrate-Comenius project, Cultural exchanges with foreign countries (the pride of the school), the Institute and the European magazine.

On January 27, 1995, it was the first Italian school to log in and surf the Internet, thanks to this, it got a great notoriety in Italy.

The dedication to Cesare De Titta was officially confirmed in 1947 and was due to the fact that many teachers had been his pupils and close friends.

THE POET CESARE DE TITTA

In the status report of the teachers' meeting that deliberated to dedicate the teacher training school to Cesare De Titta, we can read: "He was one of the most genial and refined translators of his epoch, very fine interpreter of the ancient and modern poetry such as Catullo's poems and D'Annunzio's Roman elegies".

The poet is also defined as the "tria corda" poet because he used Latin, Italian and dialect in his writings. He was born in Sant'Eusanio of Sangro, on January 27, 1862, he died on February 14, 1933 in the same village. He entered the seminar of Lanciano at the age of sixteen and in less than three years he concluded his school studies.

From 1881 to 1889 he taught Latin and Greek in the seminar of Venous, the country of the Latin poet Horace. For his essays on Catullo's poems translations, the Minister of Education conferred him the degree in humanities.

From 1891 to 1926 he taught in the grammar school of Lanciano. He deeply loved classical poetry that communicated him a sense of harmony and serenity becoming a source of inspiration for his works.

He left three volumes of Carmina, whose only one was published when he was living. He was also a councillor of the publishing house Carabba for which he prepared two valuable and famous grammar textbooks for teaching Italian and Latin.Berardinelli Serena