{{Infobox person | name = Emilio Bossi | image = Emilio Bossi.jpg |birth_date = 31 December 1870 |birth_place = Bruzella |death_date = {{d-da|27 November 1920|31 December 1870}}<ref name= "Dictionary"/> |death_place = Lugano | occupation = Journalist, lawyer }}
'''Emilio Bossi''' (31 December 1870 – 27 November 1920)<ref name= "Dictionary"/> was a Swiss freethinker, journalist, lawyer and writer.
Bossi was born in Bruzella. He graduated in law at the University of Geneva.<ref name= "Dictionary">[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I3495.php "Emilio Bossi"]. Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, Bern.</ref> He wrote under the pseudonym '''Milesbo'''. He was an editor (1896–1902) and director (1915–1920) of the ''Gazzetta Ticinese'' newspaper and founded the ''L'Idea moderna'' newspaper in 1895.<ref name= "Dictionary"/> In 1906 he founded ''L'Azione'', a radical-democratic group. He was one of the founders of the ''Unione Radicale Sociale Ticinese'', a political group that requested separation of church and state.<ref name= "Dictionary"/>
He was deputy to the Grand Council of Ticino (1905–10, 1914–20), the National Council (1914–20) and the Council of States (1920). He was the Ticino State Councillor and was Director of the Department of Interior (1910–1914).<ref name= "Dictionary"/>
Bossi was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.<ref>Weaver, Walter P. (1999). ''The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900–1950''. Trinity Press International. p. 69. {{ISBN|1-56338-280-6}}</ref> In 1904, he authored the book ''Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito'' (''Jesus Christ Never Existed'').<ref>Ziolkowski, Theodore. (2002 edition). ''Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus''. Wipf & Stock Publishers. pp. 143–144. {{ISBN|978-1579109318}} "In Italy, Emilio Bossi, writing under the name Milesbo, advocated the non-historicity of Jesus in an often reprinted volume with the sensational title ''Jesus Christ Never Existed'' (''Gesu Cristo non-e mai esistito'', 1904)."</ref>
==Publications==
*''Sulla separazione dello Stato dalla Chiesa'' (1899) *''Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito'' (1900) *''I clericali e la libertà'' (1909) *''Venti mesi di storia svizzera'' (1916)
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Christ myth theory|state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}}
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