Guarnieri, scriitor în limba română și profesor de limba și literatura română

Guarnieri Writer in Romanian and Professor of Romanian Language and Literature. This essay reconstructs the Romanian side of the academic and social activity of Silvio Guarnieri, professor of Italian literature at the University of Pisa and founder of the discipline of Romanian language and literature at the same university, in 1963. The period spent in Romania as director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Timișoara, from 1938 to 1948, allowed him to observe the fall of fascism and the rise of the Italian resistance from a privileged point of view and to propose essays of a clearly anti-fascist nature in Romanian, as well as the opportunity to host the Italian engineer Luigi Rozzi on his return from Auschwitz-Monowitz, thus collecting his testimony, publishing it together with other essays written first in the magazines «Vrerea» and «Revista Fundațiilor Regale» and then in the 1945 volume Adevărata față a Italiei, or: The True Face of Italy. The article aims to briefly highlight the importance of Guarnieri’s academic and literary ties with Romania, his efforts in creating Romanian language and literature classes in Pisa, but above all to emphasize the ethical force that distinguishes his anti-fascist essays, all focused on the analysis of personal, cultural and social events and upheavals, according to the theory of dialectical materialism postulated by Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel and, later, by Karl Marx.