While preparing for the Esame di Stato, students live the delicate moment of transition to adulthood and they seek to reconcile the uncertainties with the expectations about their future.

[22] About the competences, the report confirms that "the curriculum of this school does not address the world of work, rather it is meant to educate the future ruling class.

The modern school was established by Napoleonic decree in 1803, while the villa on the Rosate hill was erected between 1845 and 1852 under the auspices of the Austrian Government as "Regio Liceo".

[24] In 2011, the academy took part in the celebration of the 150° anniversary of the Italian unification: for the occasion, the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, visited Bergamo, a town that Garibaldi hailed as La Città dei Mille, because of the major role the Alpine city played in the Expedition of the Thousand.

[1] Recently, the school adopted the following modernization reforms: In 1907, the Società Bergamasca di Ginnastica e Sports Atletici Atalanta was instituted in the gym of the academy by some Swiss students.

[28] The palace and the surrounding areas have been used as setting of several movies: In 2010, the Gelmini reform changed the traditional Italian school system, so now students follow this specific pattern of courses that covers a large range of disciplines.