Emanuel L. Paparella is a former professor of Italian language and literature at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Central Florida. He is the author of various books: Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (Mellen Press, New York, 1993), A New Europe in Search of its Soul (Authorhouse, 2005), Europa: an Idea and a Journey (Exlibris, 2012), Tre Novelle Rusticane di Giovanni Verga (ed. 1975, Florentia Publisher), as well as innumerable articles on Italian literature and philosophy. He holds a BA from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y., an MA from Middlebury College in Italian Literature, a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in Italian Humanism from Yale University. He has also studied Comparative Literature at New York University, is a former Fulbright scholar and has directed for five summers the study abroad program of the University of Central Florida snd Broward College at the University of Urbino. He has published for Italian journals and newspapers, the latest for Libro Aperto (April-June 2012) with an article commemorating the anniversary of the death of Benedetto Croce titled “Una rivalutazione della Filosofia di Benedetto Croce” (pp.186-190) which was reviewd in La Repubblica (July 28, 2012). He has done a major translation: Vittorio Possenti’s Philosophy and Revelation (Ashgate Publishing, 2001), Since 2000 he has actively participated in the debate on the European Union while lecturing and teaching humanities and philosophy at Barry University in Miami and Broward College in Davie, Florida. Over the last ten years or so he has published some 400 articles of a philosophical-literary nature in the on-line international magazine Ovi. He lives in Sunrise, Florida, with his wife Cathy of forty six years. He has three daughters: Cristina, Alessandra and Francesca and three grandchildren Sophia, Nicholas and Adriana. A fourth is on its way.
