Paolo Eustachio Lamanna

Philosopher and historian of philosophy, after his high school studies in Matera he enrolled at the University of Florence (1904), where he finished his degree first in letters and then in philosophy, studying with Ermenegildo Pistelli and with Francesco De Sarlo, whose daughter he later married. He obtained his university teaching qualification, was awarded the chair of moral philosophy at the University of Messina, then taught history of philosophy in Florence (1924), where he was Dean of the Faculty of Letters from 1947 to 1953 and University Rector from 1953 to 1961. Author of a well-received manual for high schools, he was a member of the National Council for Public Education and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.