Carla Porta Musa

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Carla Porta Musa (15 March 1902 – 10 October 2012) was an Italian supercentenarian, essayist and poet.

Musa was born in Como, Italy, to Maria Casella and Enrico Musa, a well known engineer in Milan. Her passion for books started on her sixth birthday when her father gave her a small library which she shared with her three siblings. She studied in Lausanne, Switzerland, Bushey, United Kingdom, and Paris, France.^[1]

She died on 10 October 2012 at Valduce Hospital in Como from pneumonia complications, aged 110 years, 209 days.^[2]

Partial bibliography[edit]

• Le tre zitelle, 2010
• Villa Elisabetta, 2008
• Lasciati prender per mano, 2007
• La ribelle incatenata, 2005
• Nel segno di Chiara, 1998
• Il cielo nel cuore, 1997
• Il suo cane ciao e altre storie, 1995
• Le stagioni di Chiara, 1994
• Il tuo cuore e il mio, 1992
• Lampi al magnesio, 1991
• La luna di traverso, 1965
• Il cortile, 1961
• Storia di Peter, 1960
• Girometta e Pampacoca, 1960
• La breve estate, 1959
• Liberata, 1958
• Virginia 1880, 1955
• Quaderno rosso, 1954
• Nuovi momenti lirici, 1953
• Momenti Lirici, 1950

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