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Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924
- 11 June 1998) was a professor of Italian descent
at the University of Southern California, who
authored a number of New York Times bestseller
list|New York Times bestselling inspirational
books on of love and human reticences on the
subject, including The Fall of Freddie the Leaf,
Bus 9 to Paradise, Living Loving and Learning, and
Love.  In lectures he often protested, in outrage
at the comparative absence of writings on the
subject, "I got the copyright for love!!!"  

While teaching at the USC, Buscaglia was moved by
a student's suicide to contemplate human
disconnectedness and the meaning of life, and
began a non-credit class he called Love 1A.  His
book and numerous recorded and televised lectures,
some of which became available through PBS, and
which became extremely well received.  He argued
that social bonds are essential at transcending
the stresses of everyday life and enriching it
above the limitations of poverty as well as
crossing communication gaps between generations.  

Buscaglia worked actively to overcome social and
mental barriers that inhibited the expression of
love between people, from family to acquaintances
to the disabled, institutionalized, and elderly,
to complete strangers, often making his own
forwardness on the subject a topic of
self-deprecating humor.  The profundity of his
subject, however, almost invariably struck a
responsive chord regarding an area many regarded
as deficient in their lives, and by 1998 his books
had reached eighteen million copies in print in
seventeen languages.

Tragically, Leo Buscaglia died of a heart attack
on June 11, 1998 at his home in Glenbrook, Nevada,
near Lake Tahoe. He was 74.

==External links==

* http://www.buscaglia.com Leo Buscaglia and
Felice Foundation official site.
*
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/
assignment1/1969buscaglia.html Selected Moments of
the 20th Century: 1969 Leo Buscaglia teaches Love
1A at the University of Southern California
*
http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=l_buscaglia
Buscaglia at The "My Hero" Project
* http://www.intouchmag.com/interview.html
Interview & "Love Quiz"
*
http://www.journeyofhearts.org/jofh/kirstimd/busca
gl2.htm "Learn the Joy of the Moment" by Leo
Buscaglia, Ph.D.
*
http://www.journeyofhearts.org/jofh/kirstimd/busca
gl3.htm "Loving Through Death" by Leo Buscaglia,
Ph.D.
*
http://www.newvisionsmagazine.com/november2003/vis
sell1103.html More Lessons from Leo Buscaglia at
New Visions Magazine
* http://208.244.159.127/ezine/feb01/essential.htm
"What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eye";
"Leo's Lessons On Love" by Chrissa Snyder
*
http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/autum
n98/alumninews/IM_Buscaglia.html Obituary at USC
Alumni News
*
http://www.vibrantuniverse.com/archives/leo_buscag
lia.html Profoundly inspirational by Annie
Zalezsak