Carlo Bo; Wrote on Literature, Catholic Church
Carlo Bo, 90, one of Italy’s leading postwar literary critics, died Saturday at a private clinic in the port city of Genoa, Italy.
A critic and editorial writer for Corriere della Sera, the Milan daily newspaper, Bo was best known for his books and essays on Italian, French and Spanish literature and for his writings on Catholicism.
Literature and life, he once wrote, “are both in equal measure instruments of research and therefore truth.”
Bo also was heavily involved in politics and government and was a senator for life in the Italian parliament.
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