Carlo Carena, one of Italy's greatest Latinists and Greekists, has died at the age of 98. He had recently edited "The Nature of the Ancient World. A Classical Anthology from Homer to Pliny the Younger". The scholar died at his home in Vacciago, on the heights of Lake Orta, in the province of Novara. Carena's academic cursus saw him become a professor of Latin Literature at the University of Turin, after teaching experience in high schools. On the other hand, Carena has also always worked outside the academy as a columnist for magazines and newspapers, including the Sole24Ore cultural supplement, as a collaborator and consultant for Einaudi since the 1950s. For the publishing house he edited and translated classics by Aeschylus, Plutarch, Plautus, Augustine, ranging as far as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Pascal, Pico della Mirandola and Bacon. Carena also edited important works for Utet and Fondazione Valla. In his youth he was a student of the poet Clement Rebora at the Rosminian college in Domodossola. A few weeks ago, the city of Borgomanero, where Carena was born in 1925, presented him with a special lifetime achievement award.