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Giacinto Bosco

Giacinto Bosco
Born25 January 1905
Died11 October 1997(1997-10-11) (aged 92)
Rome
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Naples
OccupationJurist
Years active1927–1988
Political partyChristian Democracy
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineInternational law
InstitutionsUniversity of Urbino
University of Florence
University of Rome

Giacinto Bosco (25 January 1905 – 11 October 1997) was an Italian jurist, academic and politician from the Christian Democrats. He held various ministerial posts from 1960 to 1972. After retiring from politics he served as a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union between 1976 and 1988.

Early life and education

Born on 25 January 1905 in Caserta Bosco obtained a PhD in law from the University of Naples in 1925.[1]

Career

Bosco worked as a deputy secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the period 1927–1932.[1] He became a professor of international law at the University of Rome and the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Urbino in 1932.[1] He worked as a full professor of international law at the University of Florence (1933–1940) and at the University of Rome (1940–1975).[1][2]

Bosco was a member of the Christian Democrats and was a close ally of Amintore Fanfani.[3] In the 1960s they were part of the same faction within the party.[3] Bosco served as a senator in the period 1948–1972 for the Christian Democrats.[4] He was the state secretary at the Ministry of Defense (1953–1958), vice president of the Senate (1958–1960).[1] From 1960 Bosco held several cabinet posts: minister of education (1960–1962); minister of justice (1962–1963); minister of labor and social security (1963–1964 and 1966–1968); minister without portfolio for United Nations affairs (1968–1969 and 1970); minister of finance (1969–1970) and minister of posts and telecommunications (1970–1972).[4] He served as a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union from 7 October 1976 to 6 October 1988.[1]

Death

Bosco died in Rome at the age of 92 on 11 October 1997.[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Corte di giustizia". EU Court of Justice. Archived from the original on 31 December 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  2. ^ Rodolfo De Nova (Autumn 1963). "New Trends in Italian Private International Law". Law and Contemporary Problems. 28 (4): 814. doi:10.2307/1190566. JSTOR 1190566.
  3. ^ a b Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni (2017). "The China Question in Italian Foreign Policy". Modern Asian Studies. 51 (1): 126–127. doi:10.1017/S0026749X16000342. S2CID 151821736.
  4. ^ a b c "Bòsco, Giacinto" (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved 30 January 2022.