Pio Fontana

Pio Fontana (23 October 1927 – 8 March 2001) was a Swiss teacher and writer.

Personal life and education Fontana was born in Balerna in Switzerland on 23 October 1927 to Demetrio and Maria (born Scanziani) Fontana. He attended the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. His graduation thesis, supervised by Mario Apollonio, was on the subject of the sixteenth century Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto's Cinque Canti and it was published in 1962.

He died on 8 March 2001 in the city of Mendrisio. in 1974 Art and Myth of the Small Homeland and in 1985 Letters to Giovanni Castellano, 1908–1949.

He acted as a mentor for the Italian-Swiss poet Silvana Lattmann.