VINCENZO DI GIOVANNI. — Historian and philosopher, priest, b. at Salapante (Trapani) in 1832, d. in 1903. He was professor of philosophy at the liceo and at the seminary of Palermo. As a philosopher he followed Gioberti, without originality but with great erudition.
As a historian he merits recognition for having collected an extensive body of material on Sicilian history. He left a bibliography of his works in the Catalogo ordinato delle pubblicazioni di mons. V. di G. (Palermo 1899, supplemented by S. Salomone-Marino in the Commemorazione solenne di V. D. G. alla Società sicula per la storia patria, 1914). Principal works: Principi di filosofia prima (2 vols., Palermo 1863); Cronache siciliane dei secc. XIII, XIV, XV (Bologna 1865); Opere filosofiche, 13 vols. (Palermo 1865–88); Filologia e letteratura siciliana (2 vols., 1871); Storia della filosofia in Sicilia dai tempi antichi al sec. XIX (2 vols., 1872); Critica religiosa e filosofia (2 vols., 1871–1898).