Emanuel L. Paparella has a BA (major in philosophy) "St. Francis College, NYC", an MA "Middlebury College, Vt" in Italian Literature, an M.Ph. in Comparative Literatures and a Ph.D. in Italian Humanism from Yale University. A former professor of Italian at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Central Florida where he was director of the Urbino Summer Program from 1998 till 2001. He is currently retired, residing with his wife Cathy and his three daughters.
Poetry/Philosophy History/Providence in Vico's New Science by Prof.Emanuel L. Paparella A very interesting book by Raymond Barfield was published last year by the University of Cambridge Press titled The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. The book was positively reviewed. What attracted my attention was the fa
Sundry Ruminations on Vico, Croce, and Historicism by Prof.Emanuel L. Paparella What follows are mere ruminations on the nexus between Croce, Vico, Historicism and Relativism. Much confusion exists on such a nexus. Some have confused historicism with relativism and then have gone on to identify multiculturalism and diversity