Notice 27th June 2023
Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 244, 00186 Roma www.ismeo.eu ismeo@ismeo.eu On Sunday, June 18, 2023, our member Silvio Vita, an internationally renowned Yamatologist, passed away in Kyoto at the age of 69. He leaves his wife Kumi and children Nicola and Francesca, as well as brothers Letizia and Renato and numerous friends who with his kind and reserved trait had learned to love him during his life. Professor Silvio Vita graduated in Classics from the Faculty of Humanities at the Oriental University Institute of Naples in 1978. Initially interested in the studies of religions and East Asian thought, he had deepened his research on medieval Buddhism in Japan and China, training at Kyoto University and acquiring an M.A. at Princeton University in 1986, a circumstance that had put...