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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 "Bòsco, Giacinto" (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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