Carla Porta Musa

Carla Porta Musa (15 March 1902 – 10 October 2012) was an Italian 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. She died on 10 October 2012 at Valduce Hospital in Como from pneumonia complications.