Carlo Amedeo Pasotto - Born in Verona on 13.5.1943, he lived in Milan with his family as from 1949. In that city he carried out his studies until achieving his Arts degree at the Catholic University of Milan. He is married with 6 children. From 1971 until 1977 he taught Italian language and culture at the Don Calabria Opera in Milan, under the direction of Don Antonio Mazzi. The O.D.C. in Milan stood out in those years as a centre for the planning and experimentation of didactics aimed at the social-cultural fitting-in of the disabled and society misfits. In those years he operated in collaboration with the psycho-pedagogic team directed by Doctor Lucisano, acquiring theoretic and practical competences particularly important in this field. From 1977 to 1982 he was one of the promoter-operators that set the experience of permanent education for adults (C.E.P.) into motion within the city of Milan. In 1982 he moved with his family to Urbino. In 1986 he founded the Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society, of which he is now honorary president, and in the same year he initiated the first Italian language and culture courses for foreigners. In 1988 he founded the Centre of Italian Studies of which he is the director. The Centre, throughout these years, has assumed a considerable international importance and collaborates with prestigious foreign institutes such as universities, music conservatories, Italian institutes of culture, pontifical colleges, etc. Students frequenting the courses now come from over 90 countries worldwide. In 1989 he was one of the promoters and founders of the A.S.I.L.S. (Association of schools for Italian as a second language). He has held numerous conferences in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Australia, Denmark, Iceland, U.S.A., Norway, Finland, China, Japan, some of which in prestigious universities : Vienna (Romanistic Institute), Zurich, Neuchâtel, Fribourg (CH), Murcia, Seville, Antwerp, Nimega, Namur, Melbourne, Aarhus, Chambéry, Santa Cruz (Ca, U.S.A.), Peking (University of Languages), Liege. From 1990 to 1998 he wrote for "Culturiana", (a quarterly magazine for linguistics, philology, glottology and cultural information for the teaching of Italian as a second language), whose scientific committee has Tullio De Mauro as its honorary president. He has also written for  "Pagine della Dante", the quarterly magazine of the Dante Alighieri Society. He has organized and directed refresher courses for Italian teachers abroad for the University of Uppsala (Sweden), for the Land del Baden - Wűrttemberg (Germany) and for the committees of the Dante Alighieri Society in Argentina, Austria and Australia.

He has collaborated with the accomplishment of the Italian text book for foreigners entitled "CI SIAMO" (CIS - Heinemann, Melbourne, Australia, 1997). He has written "CARA ITALIA" (Il Cerchio ed., Rimini, 1996). The book was presented to the public at the "Meeting" of Rimini (1996) and in numerous Italian cities, and it won the "Nuove Lettere" international award for poetry and literature. In July of 1998 he published "PERCHE' SIA AMORE" (SEGNO editions, Udine) and it was presented at the "Meeting" in Rimini the following 25th of August.

In May of the year 2000 he founded the CENTRO STUDI ITALIANI OPERA FESTIVAL, PER GIOVANI VOCI E STRUMENTISTI, after 14 years of experience in the field of Italian language and musical culture courses for foreigners.

Since June 2001, honorary member of the Pacific Musical Society, San Francisco, USA. In 2001 he finished writing "FAMIGLIA E SOCIETÀ". In February 2002 he got his diploma in Religious Sciences from the University of Urbino.