Carlo Bo was a poet, literary critic, a professor and Life senator

Senator for life

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 of Italy

Italy

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 (from 1984).

Before World War II

World War II

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, in the year (1936), he published an essay

Essay

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 on the literary magazine

Magazine

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 Frontespizio, by the title "Letteratura come vita (Literature as a way of life)", containing the theoretical-methodological fundamentals of hermetic poetry

Hermeticism (poetry)

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. This was to become a strong poetical movement comprising important poets and Nobel laureates, such as Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

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 and Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

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.

Carlo Bo was the president of University of Urbino

University of Urbino

The University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" is an Italian university located in Urbino, a walled hill-town in the region of Marche, located in the north-eastern part of central Italy. The university was founded in 1506, and currently has about 20,000 students, many of whom are from overseas...

 from 1947, for more than 50 years.