Carlo Bo

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Carlo Bò, photographed by Paolo Monti (1954)

Carlo Bo (born January 25, 1911 in Sestri Levante , Genoa province , † July 21, 2001 in Genoa ) was an Italian professor of French literature and an important Italian literary critic.

For over 50 years since 1947 he was rector of the University of Urbino , which has been named after him since 2003. In 1968 he founded the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne in Milan together with Silvio Federico Baridon , and since 1998 Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM .

In 1984 he was appointed Senator for life by the then President Sandro Pertini together with Norberto Bobbio . He was initially non-attached in the Senate , then from 1987 to 1994 he belonged to the Democrazia Cristiana parliamentary group , then until May 2001 to the Partito Popolare Italiano and in the last months before his death to the La Margherita parliamentary group . He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 1984–87, the Committee on Education and Cultural Assets from 1987–2001, and most recently the Environment Committee.

bibliography

  • Jacques Rivière (1935)
  • Otto studi (1939)
  • Saggi di letteratura francese (1940)
  • Carte spagnole (1941)
  • Mallarmé (1945)
  • L'eredità di Leopardi e altri saggi (1964)
  • La religione di Serra (1967)
  • Della letteratura (1987)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carlo BO , entry at the Italian Senate.