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Paolo Milano; Italian Literary Critic

Paolo Milano, 84, a prominent Italian literary critic. Milano was described by the city’s daily La Republica as “one of the most cosmopolitan voices of Italian culture.” Milano, a Jew, fled the Italian fascist regime in the late 1930s. After a brief period in Paris, he settled in New York in 1940. He lived there for 15 years teaching comparative literature at Queens College and at the New School of Social Research. He edited “The Portable Dante,” published in 1947, and wrote “Henry James--The Voluntary Exile,” which came out in 1948. He also contributed articles to such publications as Politics, the Partisan Review and The Nation. From 1957 to 1986, Milan worked in Rome as literary critic for the Italian weekly magazine L’Espresso. In Rome on Saturday.