Cristina Campo

Due to a congenital cardiac malformation, which always made her health fragile, Cristina grew up isolated from her peers and could not follow regular school studies.

She contributed to various publications including Paragone, Conoscenza religiosa [it] and Questo e altro [it], and also started the column "Posta letteraria" in Corriere dell'Adda with Gianfranco Draghi [it].

Cristina Campo was one of the founders of Una Voce, which was opposed to liturgical changes introduced in the Catholic church by the Second Vatican Council, she also was also behind the Short Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae or also called the Ottaviani Intervention.

[4] In 2021, an annotated translation of "Gli imperdonabili" by Nicola Masciandaro and Andrea di Serego Alighieri was published in Glossator 11, Practice and Theory of the Commentary, a bilingual volume wholly dedicated to the work of the poet.

[5] In 2024, her essay collections Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971) were brought together in a single volume in English translation published by New York Review Books.