GUASTELLA, COSMO. – Philosopher, born in Misilmeri (Palermo) on 28 January 1854, died in Palermo on 11 September 1922. He devoted himself to philosophy after studying law, obtaining in 1903 the chair of theoretical philosophy at the University of Palermo.
In 1921–22 he published Le ragioni del fenomenismo (vols. I and II; vol. III appeared posthumously in 1923), the sum of all his phenomenism (v.). He BRENTANO, FRANZ (v.).
BIBL.: F. Albeggiani, Il sistema filosofico di C. G., Florence 1927 (bibliography); F. Borino, L'infinito attuale e le antinomie nel fenomenismo di C. G., in Riv. di filos. neoscolastica, 32 (1940), pp. 590–94. Desiderio Gatti