I Campionati delle lingue e civiltà classiche.

The essay describes the eleventh edition of the Classical Languages and Civilisations Championships, and then it offers some reflections on the current state of health of the study of these languages, especially Latin. It also emphasises the importance of translation, a real skill that cannot be acquired through an uncritical study, but rather evidence of the development of the competence of linguistic comparison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]