The Vampires arrive in the City of Witches: "Cultura in Cortile" on Monday 3 July, at 18, in the courtyard of Palazzo De Simone, in Piazza Arechi II, hosts prof. Francesco Paolo De Ceglia, professor of History of Science at the University of Bari and well-known science popularizer also for the Rai Scuola channel. A journey through time and space through stories and reports that have now taken their place in our imagination poised between scientific doubts, ancestral fears, superstition and literary myths. As De Ceglia writes in the introduction of his latest book, Vampyr. Storia naturale della resurrezione, just released by Einaudi, “I may not believe in vampires, but they believe in me. And I'm perfectly capable of revealing who I am." A meeting of scientific culture and dissemination, in which wondering who vampires are and where they come from, you will end up discovering something more about our view of the world and who lives in it. Vampires arrive in the City of Witches

Francesco Paolo De Ceglia is a scholar of modern scientific thought, particularly in its relationship with theology and cultural history. Several times invited researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, since 2018 he has been Director of the Interuniversity Research Center "Seminar of the History of Science" based in the University of Bari. Well-known science communicator also for the Rai Scuola channel, among his latest publications we mention, again for Einaudi, Il segreto di San Gennaro. Storia naturale di un miracolo napoletano (2016), and, together with Lorenzo Leporiere, La pitonessa, il pirata e l’acuto osservatore. Spiritismo e scienza nell’Italia della belle époque, with a preface by Massimo Polidori (Editrice Bibliografica, 2018).