# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-calasso
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:02:52.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberto-calasso"
name: "Roberto Calasso"
slug: "roberto-calasso"
description: "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."
tagline: "Italian writer (1941–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roberto_Calasso_(1991)_by_Erling_Mandelmann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-05-30"
deathDate: "2021-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.5
  momentum:             1.220272904483431
  historical:           17.07388266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump