Le verità di una cultura

Pasquale Guaragnella, former Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, was, during his professional career, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature; Director of the University Language Center; Director of the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science. He has held teaching courses and lecture courses at numerous Argentine and European universities, especially in Germany, in Poland, in countries in the inter-Adriatic area. Also with the commitment of popularizer of Italian language and culture abroad he held the position of President of IRRE-Puglia and of Secretary of ADI (Association of Italianists). Codirige editorial series of studies and texts of Italian literature.
He worked on authors and on the history of modern Italian literature, mainly in the seventeenth century: publishing books and essays on Galileo and Benedetto Castelli, on Guido Casoni and Giambattista Basile, on Traiano Boccalini and above all on Paolo Sarpi (Il serve melanconico, FrancoAngeli ; L'arte di ben pensiero, Donzelli). He has also dealt with modern prose writers or narrators such as Antonio Labriola, De Roberto, Pirandello: the related studies are included in Il pensatore e artista (Bulzoni) or in The faces of emotions (Società Editrice Fiorentina), but also in Writers in deductible. The Great War in Pirandello Ungaretti De Roberto Sbarbaro (Progedit). Elio Vittorini is another author to whom he has dedicated a long critical commitment.
For some time he has extended his research interests to the history of southern culture in the eighteenth century, publishing a book entitled "It is about words, about colors". The rhetorical reason from Giambattista Vico to Gaetano Filangieri (FrancoAngeli).