The was set up shortly after the
Capture of Rome in 1871 in the building that had housed the
Jesuit Roman College. It was dedicated to the famous Roman archaeologist
Ennio Quirino Visconti, who had supported the Francophile
Roman Republic at the end of the 18th century. In 1938, science teacher Maria Piazza was forced to leave her teaching position and 58 Jewish students were expelled under the racial laws imposed by the fascist regime. A commemorative plaque installed in 2019 recalls the victims of state anti-Semitism. ==Notes==