Carla Porta Musa is an Italian essayist and poet.

Musa was born in Como, Italy in 1902 to Enrico Musa, a well renowned engineer in Milan, and Maria Casella. Her passion for books started on her sixth birthday when her father gave to her a small library which she shared with her three siblings.

She studied in Lausanne, Switzerland, Bushey, United Kingdom

Bushey

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 and Paris, France.

Partial bibliography

• Le tre zitelle, 2010
• Villa Elisabetta, 2008
• Lasciati prender per mano, 2007
• La ribelle incatenata, 2005
• Nel segno di Chiara, 1998
• Il cielo nel cuore, 1997
• Il suo cane ciao e altre storie, 1995
• Le stagioni di Chiara, 1994
• Il tuo cuore e il mio, 1992
• Lampi al magnesio, 1991
• La luna di traverso, 1965
• Il cortile, 1961
• Storia di Peter, 1960
• Girometta e Pampacoca, 1960
• La breve estate, 1959
• Liberata, 1958
• Virginia 1880, 1955
• Quaderno rosso, 1954
• Nuovi momenti lirici, 1953
• Momenti Lirici, 1950