Après une période d'études en Allemagne, il revient à Rome, comme assistant de géométrie analytique et descriptive de Gaetano Scorza. Il succède à ce dernier en 1939.
↑Cf. M. Benedicty, "Necrologio", Boll. UMI, 9 (1) (1954) p. 227-228.
↑Cf. F. S. Rossi, "Conforto, Fabio", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 28 (1983).
↑Cf. A.N. Kolmogorov, A-A.P. Yushkevich (Eds.), Mathematics of the 19th Century. Geometry, Analytic Function Theory, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1996, Ch. 2, pp. 247-263.
↑Cf. T. Hawkins, The Mathematics of Frobenius in Context. A Journey Through 18th to 20th Century Mathematics, Springer Sciences + Business Media, LLC., New York, 2013, Sect. 11.4.3.
↑Cf. A.I. Markushevich, Introduction to the Classical Theory of Abelian Functions, AMS-American Mathematical Society, Providence (RI), 1992, Preface, pp. vii-viii, dove l'autore riconosce l'influenza esercitata dall'opera di Conforto nel redigere parte del suo testo, dichiarando altresì come pure C.L. Siegel trasse ispirazione da essa per alcuni capitoli del suo testo Analytic Functions of Several Complex Variables, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1950.
↑Cf. H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer, Analytic Theory of Abelian Varieties, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Volume No. 14, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), 1974, Introduction, p. vii.
↑Cf. J-I. Igusa, Theta Function, Springer-Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg, 1972, Foreword, p. v.
↑Cf. I. Grattan-Guinness (Ed.), Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics, 1640-1940, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam (NL), 2005, Chapter 62.
↑Cf. M. Georgiadou, Constantin Carathéodory. Mathematics and Politics in Turbulent Times, Springer-Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg, 2004, ch. 5, sect. 5.49.