Together with Salvatore Quasimodo, Salvatore Pugliatti (Messina 1903 – Ragusa 1976, who was elected several times Rector of the University of Messina from 1957) was one of La Pira’s great friends from high school.
The correspondence recovered from the wealth of letters between the two was published in
G. La Pira, Lettere a Salvatore Pugliatti (1920-1939), ed. Francesco Mercadante, Roma, Studium 1980
Here you can read some parts of two letters: