Roberto Calasso
PersonItalian writer (1941–2021)
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Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.
| Born | 1941-05-30 |
| Died | 2021-07-28 |
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