Francesco Leonetti

Francesco Leonetti (27 January 1924[1][2] – 17 December 2017) was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist.

Francesco Leonetti
Born(1924-01-27)27 January 1924
Cosenza, Italy
Died17 December 2017(2017-12-17) (aged 93)
Milan, Italy
OccupationPoet, novelist, teacher, political activist

Biography

Leonetti was born in Cosenza in Calabria. In 1955 he moved to Bologna to study philosophy. There he met Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Roversi, and together they co-founded the magazine Officina.[3][4] In the 1960s he co-founded with Elio Vittorini e Italo Calvino the literary magazine Il Menabò. In 1963 he joined the Neoavanguardia avant-garde Italian literary movement.

Leonetti collaborated with Pasolini again in 1964, playing the part of Herod Antipas in The Gospel According to St. Matthew. He also provided the voice of the sparrow in The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) and played the part of the servant Laio in the 1967 film Oedipus Rex.[5]

In the 1970s he co-edited with Nanni Balestrini the magazine Alfabeta. In 1974 he authored a monograph on Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. From 1975 to 1995 he taught Aesthetics at the Brera Academy in Milan.[6]

Selected works
  • Sopra una perduta estate (1942)
  • La cantica (1959)
  • L’incompleto (1964)
  • Irati e sereni (1974)
  • Conoscenza per errore (studente a Bologna del 48-49) (1978)
  • In uno scacco (1979)
  • Campo di battaglia (1981)
  • Palla di filo (1986)
  • La vita e gli amici (1992)
  • La voce del corvo. Una vita (1940-2001) (2002)
  • Scritti estremi di rabbia e di gioco. Narrazione, poesie, scene e prose (2005)
  • Una come un'altra (2015)

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1964The Gospel According to St. MatthewErode II
1966The Hawks and the SparrowsCrowVoice, Uncredited
1967Oedipus RexServo di Laio
1968Caprice Italian StyleIl Burattinaio(segment "Che cosa sono le nuvole?")
1970I cannibaliPrime Minister
1997The VesuviansCorvo(segment "La salita"), Voice, (final film role)
gollark: ***dun dun dun***
gollark: Maybe I should actually work on Kristshop. The client-server model is probably a good one, apart from the whole vendor lock-in and trust thing.
gollark: The difference is that those are heavily regulated and have established companies behind them.
gollark: I must admit, though, that the Δshop prefix feature is quite nice, though kind of problematic.
gollark: Eeeh, the font on the K is weird.

References
  2. http://www.calabriansmostfamous.com/francesco-leonetti/
  3. Di Stefano, Paolo (17 December 2017). "Morto Francesco Leonetti, autore militante amico di Pasolini". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  4. "Leonetti, poeta militante che ha reso epica la quotidianità". La Stampa. 18 December 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  5. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502947/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  6. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-leonetti_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/


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