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Mario Carparelli is a University Researcher in the Department of Humanities at the University of Salento, where he teaches History of Modern Philosophy in the Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences and Technical-Scientific Writing at ISUFI, the university’s School of Advanced Studies. He has also taught Storytelling in first and second-level Master’s programs since 2020.
His research centers on the history of philosophy from the late sixteenth to the nineteenth century, with particular expertise in Renaissance Naturalism, erudite Libertinism, clandestine literature, Cartesian theodicy, the radical Enlightenment, and the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. He is especially renowned for his work on Giulio Cesare Vanini, having co-edited a critical edition of Vanini’s works with Italian translation for Bompiani’s Il Pensiero Occidentale series.
Carparelli is affiliated with several research centers: the Research Center on Arthur Schopenhauer and his School, the Research Center on the Aristotelian Tradition in the 15th and 16th Centuries, the Research Center in Digital Humanities, and the Interdisciplinary Research Center on the History of Ideas (CRISI) at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan. He is Vice President of the International Centre for Vanini Studies and a member of the Italian Philosophical Society (SFI), the Italian Society for the History of Philosophy (SISF), and the Italian Society of Critical Theory.
He serves as co-director of the philosophy series I Cento Talleri (Il Prato, Padua) and director of the series RES GESTAE. Storie e filosofie d'impresa (Esperidi, Lecce). He has collaborated on Umberto Eco and Riccardo Fedriga’s History of Philosophy.
In terms of academic service and leadership, Carparelli contributes to editorial and scholarly networks that bridge historical philosophy with contemporary interdisciplinary debates. His work integrates philological rigor with philosophical analysis, particularly in recovering marginalized intellectual traditions.
