Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso
Calasso in 1991
Calasso in 1991
Born(1941-05-30)30 May 1941
Florence, Italy
Died28 July 2021(2021-07-28) (aged 80)
Milan, Italy
Resting placeSan Michele Cemetery, Venice[1]
Children3

Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher.[2] Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit.[3] He has been called "a literary institution of one".[3] The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.[4]

  1. ^ Recinto 20°, Quadrato 30, No. 10
  2. ^ Roberto Calasso at PEN American Center retrieved 23 April 2010 Archived 11 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b Lila Azam Zanganeh interviewing Robert Calasso, "The Art of Fiction No. 217", The Paris Review, Fall 2012.
  4. ^ Andrea Lee, "Roberto Calasso’s Encyclopedic Mind at Play", The New Yorker, 13 December 2012.