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He was the son of a philosopher who followed the republican ideology and therefore decided to call him Libero. His mother was a good piano-player. Libero Bovio was born in Naples on the 8th june, 1883. He started university, attending the courses of medicine. He did not graduate because of his passion for theatre in Neapolitan dialect. When he was just nineteen, he made his first play. After his father dath, he was forced to find a job that supports him. He first worked for a local newspaper called " Don Marzio", the he worked at the National Museum.. He became the director of the Export Office. He was able therefore to write a lot; he is the author of almost six hundreds lyrics: most of them belong to the history of the Neapolitan song thanks also to the talent of good musicians who were able to match his texts to the music (De Curtis, Valente, Nardella, Cannio, Falvo)."Tarantella Luciana", "Guapparia".
It was clear he was a very talented man when he started directing the storic music house "La Canzonetta". Around 1915 he wrote "Tu ca nun chiagne", "Reginella", "Cara piccina". After the first world war, in 1919 he married Maria Di Furia who gave him two sons. In spite of his family engagements, he kept on writing lyrics. He was able to write even while he was relaxing on his cab, driven by his faithful coachman Auciello (whose nickname was Dog's nose).
He wrote also theatre works as "Gente nosta", "'O prufessore", "'O Macchiettista" and many more.
"L'addio" and "Totonno se ne va" are maybe prophetic songs because soon he would leave "La canzonetta" to go and work for the "Santa Lucia" editions. This change let his song be characterized by a more dramatist style. The songs made in this period are: "'E pentite", "Lacreme napulitane", "Carcere", "'E figlie", "Zappatore". Then he also wrote: "'O paese d''o sole" and "Signorinella".
In 1934 he founded "La bottega" with other big of the music as Tagliaferri, Valente and Lama. He published the following songs: "Passione", L'ultima tarantella" and "Chitarra nera".
Unfortunately in 1941 he got ill and he died in may of that year. He left an unfilling emptines.