Waldemaro Morgese official website

Columnist, essayist, writer.

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Who is Waldemaro Morgese?

Waldemaro Morgese is a columnist, essayist and writer born in Mola di Bari in 1945.

he was a manager at the highest level of the Regional Council of Puglia and, in this capacity, director of the Teca del Mediterraneo (Multimedia Library of the Regional Council of Puglia) from 1994 to 2010 and responsible for the institutional communication of the Council from 2002 to 2010.

He has been project leader of international projects in Russia, USA, Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Poland.


He was a lecturer in economic-business disciplines in universities for many years, as well as a lecturer in post-university master's courses.


He founded with others the non-profit association Le Antiche Ville and the Ecomuseo del Poggio di Mola in Bari, to enhance an area rich in ancient villas.

He founded the rural library "Il Poggio".


He was president of the Apulian section of the Italian Library Association for two terms.

Furthermore, he is the author of numerous publications and of novels and collections of short stories, but not only that.

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Magical atmospheres in the ancient villas

Villa Gallo, concert on 25 July 2003

(now Tenuta Pinto)

View and download the ecomuseum project sheet

The Poggio of the Ancient Villas

Video directed by M. Argentieri (year 2004)

Visit the "Il Poggio" library

The "Il Poggio" rural library is housed in the old "shed" of Casina Morgese, a 70 m2 building 10 meters from the Casina. Rich in over 5,000 documents, it is equipped with toilets, kitchenette, coffee machine and all the main technological services: TV, internet connection, PC, printer, vinyl player, CD, DVD. The motto written in the logo is taken from Cicero's letters "Ad familiaris": "SI HORTUM CUM BIBLIOTHECA HABES NIHIL DEERIT" (if you have a library and a garden, you lack nothing).

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"Memory is Home": Giro's film

Memory is at home, by Girolamo Macina (2019)

Image of the rural library "Il Poggio"

The "Il Poggio" rural library has over 5,000 documents, organized into 12 archival or library collections, among which those on identity matters (about Puglia), historical-social, political, sociological, economic-business and legal matters are of particular importance. There is also an interesting fund on theater and entertainment. The 12 funds are the result of a decades-long "accumulation" of materials and documents by the founder, Antonio Waldemaro Ottone Morgese, who decided to make them available to the community. The funds can be consulted upon specific request by email to w.morgese1@gmail.com.

In evidence

Il 28 marzo 2024
28 Apr, 2024
Il 28 marzo 2024 all'ArcheoClub di Bari è stato presentato il romanzo di W.Morgese "Materne notti di luna" (editore Homo Scrivens in Napoli).
26 Mar, 2024
“Caffè Enigma” di Vito Marangelli (Editrice La Rambla, Noicattaro, 2021, pagg. 125, € 12,00).
26 Mar, 2024
Reading Carlo D'Ursi
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