| Senator Carlo Bo | |
|---|---|
| Senator for life | |
| In office 18 July 1984 – 21 July 2001 |
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| Constituency | Appointed by Italian President of Republic |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 January 1911 Sestri Levante |
| Died | 21 July 2001 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | poet |
| Profession | professor |
Carlo Bo (25 January 1911 – 21 July 2001) was a poet, literary critic, a professor and Life senator of Italy (from 1984).
Before World War II, in the year (1936), he published an essay on the literary magazine Frontespizio, by the title "Letteratura come vita (Literature as a way of life)", containing the theoretical-methodological fundamentals of hermetic poetry. This was to become a strong poetical movement comprising important poets and Nobel laureates, such as Salvatore Quasimodo and Eugenio Montale.
Carlo Bo was the president of University of Urbino from 1947, for more than 50 years.