Town faces criticism after appointing municipal philosopher to offer weekly consultations and questioning residents’ existence It is not often that a town council resolution cites Socrates and Spinoza, let alone the contemporary American philosopher Ran Lahav. Then again, not many town councils are like that of tiny Corigliano d’Otranto – population 5,889 – tucked away in the heel of Italy. It could have something to do with the fact that Corigliano is in the so-called Grecìa Salentina, a stronghold of Italy’s ethnic Greek minority, which has been there since long before Plato put pen to papyrus. It certainly has a lot to do with the town’s centre-left mayor, Ada Fiore, being a philosophy teacher. At all events, Corigliano is bent on turning itself into Italy’s most philosophical town

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