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Ferdinando Bosio (1827–1881)
Bosio, Ferdinando (bōs’yō or bō’zē-ō). An Italian man of letters; born at Alba, Piedmont, 1827; died there, Oct. 16, 1881. He was for several years teacher of rhetoric and literature, and afterward chief clerk of the ministry of public education. In 1853 he published a volume of lyrics: ‘Democracy, with a Collection of Ballads.’ He wrote many novels, all possessing the charm of an exquisite style,—‘Home Scenes and Stories’ (1874). Among his historical writings is a ‘Popular History of the Popes.’ His miscellaneous writings, political and literary, ‘A Little of Everything,’ were published in 1878.