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Argentina
Argentina
i/ˌɑrdʒənˈtiːnə/, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina [reˈpuβlika aɾxenˈtina]), is a country in South America, the continent's second largest by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations.
Argentina's continental area is between the Andes mountain range in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Argentine claims over Antarctica, as well as overlapping claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom, are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are administered by the United Kingdom as British Overseas Territories.
A recognised middle power, Argentina is Latin America's third-largest economy, with a "very high" rating on the Human development index. Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasing power terms. Analysts have argued that the country has a "foundation for future growth due to its market size, levels of foreign direct investment, and percentage of high-tech exports as share of total manufactured goods", and it is classed by investors as middle emerging economy. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations, Mercosur, the Union of South American Nations, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.
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Belgium
Belgium (i/ˈbɛldʒəm/ BEL-jəm), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers, mostly Flemish (about 60%), and the French-speakers, mostly Walloons (about 40%), plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in the political history and a complex system of government.
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Brera Academy
The Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Italian: Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera), also known as Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera), is a public academic institution located in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa of Austria.
The main objective is to teach and research within the creative arts (painting, sculpting, graphics, photo, video, etc.) and cultural historical disciplines.
Under the current Italian regulations, the Brera Academy, included in the university program in the field of the Artistic and Musical Training, issues academic diplomas of first level (equivalent to degree) and academic diplomas of second level (equivalent to master's degree). In 2005 the teaching of the academy has been classified by UNESCO as "A5". It is also regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions.
It is the most international academic institution in Italy: Brera Academy has about 3,800 students, including about 1000 foreigners (mostly postgraduates) from 50 nations. The Brera Academy exchanges students and teachers with many European countries through the ERASMUS programme. Since 2006 it has been invited to entertain relations with countries outside Europe such as Japan, China, Mexico and Australia.
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Cesena
Cesena (Italian pronunciation: [tʃɛˈzeːna]) is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the Savio River, co-chief of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. It is at the foot of the Apennines, and about 15 km from the Adriatic Sea.
Cesena was originally an Umbrian or Etruscan town, known as Caesena. After a brief spell under Gaulish rule, it was taken over by Romans in the 3rd century BC. It was a garrison town of strategic importance which was destroyed in the wars between Gaius Marius and Sulla. Pliny mentions the wines of Cesena as among the best.
Cesena was on the border that the Exarchate of Ravenna shared with the Lombards. It was presented to the Papacy by its Frankish conqueror in 754 and passed back and forth between the popes and the archbishops of Ravenna, was briefly a communal republic (1183–1198). It was then long contested between popes and Holy Roman Emperors. The brief rule by the Forlivese Ordelaffi was crushed in 1357 by Papal troops led by Cardinal Gil de Albornoz, after a long siege heroically endured by Cia degli Ordelaffi, wife of the Lord of Forlì.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945, the state did not de facto exist because of its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945, the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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The country was of generally irregular terrain. The western area was part of north-central European uplands. The eastern region was composed of northern reaches of Carpathian Mountains and Danube River basin lands.
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The weather was predominantly continental, but varied from the moderate temperature of Western Europe in the west, to more severe weather of Eastern Europe and the western Soviet Union in the east.
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Gubbio
Gubbio is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines. See also Mount Ingino Christmas Tree.
The city's origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age (Malone and Stoddart 1994). As Ikuvium, it was an important town of the ancient Umbrian people in pre-Roman times, made famous for the discovery there of the Eugubine (or Iguvine) Tables, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in ancient Umbrian. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC — it kept its name as Iguvium — the city remained important, as attested by its Roman theater, the second-largest surviving in the world.
Gubbio became very powerful in the beginning of the Middle Ages. The town sent 1000 knights to fight in the First Crusade under the lead of count Girolamo Gabrielli, and according to an undocumented local tradition, they were the first to penetrate into the Holy Sepulchre when the city was seized (1099).
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Harvard University
Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country. Harvard's history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard. Although never formally affiliated with a church, the college primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Harvard's curriculum and students became secular throughout the 18th century and by the 19th century had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's forty year tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a centralized research university, and Harvard became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900.James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College. Drew Gilpin Faust was elected the 28th president in 2007 and is the first woman to lead the university. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32 billion as of September 2011.
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Italy
Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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Milan
Milan (Italian: Milano [miˈlaːno] (
listen); Lombard: [miˈlan]; Latin: Mediolanum) is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital of Lombardy as well as of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area is the 5th largest in EU and the largest in Italy with an estimated population of approximately 5 million. The growth of many suburbs and satellite settlements around the city proper, following the Italian economic miracle of 1950s–60s and massive commuting flows, suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration, creating a region of approximately 9,3 million people. It has been suggested that the Milan metropolitan area is part of the so-called Blue Banana, the area of Europe with the highest population and industrial density. Its health care and education system is considered one of the best of Europe.
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Perugia
Perugia (Italian pronunciation: [peˈruːdʒa] ( listen); (Latin: Perusia) is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the River Tiber, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city is located about 164 kilometres (102 mi) north of Rome. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area.
The history of Perugia goes back to the Etruscan period. The city is also known as a university town, with the University of Perugia (about 34,000 students), the University for Foreigners (5,000 students), and some smaller colleges, also. There are annual festivals and events: the Eurochocolate Festival (October), the Umbria Jazz Festival, and the International Journalism Festival (in April).
Perugia is a well-known artistic centre of Italy. The famous painter Pietro Vannucci, nicknamed Perugino, was a native of Città della Pieve near Perugia. He decorated the local Sala del Cambio with a beautiful series of frescoes; eight of his pictures can also be admired in the National Gallery of Umbria. Perugino was the teacher of Raphael, the great Renaissance artist who produced five paintings in Perugia (today no longer in the city) and one fresco. Another famous painter, Pinturicchio, lived in Perugia. Galeazzo Alessi is the most famous architect from Perugia. The city symbol is the griffin, which can be seen in the form of plaques and statues on buildings around the city.
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Poland
Polandi/ˈpoʊlənd/ (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska; Kashubian: Pòlskô Repùblika; Silesian: Polsko Republika), is a country in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous post-communist member. Poland is a unitary state made up of 16 voivodeships. Poland is a member of the European Union, NATO, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), European Economic Area, International Energy Agency, Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, International Atomic Energy Agency, G6, Council of the Baltic Sea States, Visegrád Group, Weimar Triangle and Schengen Agreement.
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Province of Varese
The Province of Varese (Italian: Provincia di Varese) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese but its largest city is Busto Arsizio.
Samarate, a comune in the province, is the headquarters of the AgustaWestland division of Finmeccanica, the world's largest producer of helicopters.
It has an area of 1,199 km², and a total population of 812,477 (2001). There are 141 comunes in the province. As of December 31, 2007, the main comunes by population are:
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RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. (for brevity Rai S.p.A.) known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy. It competes with three major private television companies, Mediaset, Telecom Italia Media, and Sky Italia.
Rai operates several television channels and radio stations, broadcasting in analog terrestrial (until 2013), in digital terrestrial and in several satellite and IPTV offerings. In 1950, Rai became one of the 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union.
Half of Rai's revenues come from the broadcast licence fee, the other half from advertising. Rai has a relatively high audience share of 42.3%.
Due to their close proximity, Albania, Switzerland, Monaco, Malta, San Marino, Vatican City, Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia also receive broadcasts.
Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI) was formed in 1924 with the backing of the Marconi Company following a model adopted in other European countries. URI made its inaugural broadcast — a speech by Benito Mussolini at Teatro Costanzi — on 5 October and regular programming began with a quartet performing Haydn's Opera 7 from the Palazzo Corradi the following evening. At 21:00 CET, Ines Donarelli Viviani announced for the first time: "URI—Unione Radiofonica Italiana Rome station 1RO 425 meters wavelength. To all those who are listening our greetings, good evening."Guglielmo Marconi's S.A. Radiofono—Società Italiana per le Radiocomunicazioni Circolari (Radiofono) held 85% of URI shares and Western Electric's Società Italiana Radio Audizioni Circolari (SIRAC) held the remaining 15%.
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Rome
Rome (/ˈroʊm/; Italian: Roma pronounced [ˈroːma] ( listen); Latin: Rōma) is a city and special comune ("Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and the capital of Lazio (Latin: Latium). With 2.8 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. Between 3.2 and 3.7 million people live in the Rome metropolitan area. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.
Rome's history spans two and a half thousand years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and the city is regarded as one of the birthplaces of western civilization. Since the 1st century AD Rome has been the seat of the Papacy and, after the end of Byzantine domination, in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. In 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic.
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Sangiano
Sangiano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km northwest of Milan and about 15 km northwest of Varese. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,345 and an area of 2.2 km².
Sangiano borders the following municipalities: Besozzo, Caravate, Laveno-Mombello, Leggiuno.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11) were a series of four suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, coordinated to strike the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. The hijackers also intentionally crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines Flight 93, into a target in Washington, D.C.; however, the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after its passengers attempted to take control of the jet from the hijackers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes, none of whom survived.
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Sweden
Sweden (i/ˈswiːdən/ SWEE-dən; Swedish: Sverige [ˈsværjɛ] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: 
Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund.
At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of about 9.4 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi) with the population mostly concentrated to the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population live in urban areas. Sweden's capital city is Stockholm, which is also the largest city.
Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the country expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire. The empire grew to be one of the great powers of Europe in the 17th and early 18th century. Most of the conquered territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were lost during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern half of Sweden, present-day Finland, was lost to Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into a personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, practicing "non-participation in military alliances during peacetime and neutrality during wartime". However, Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995 and is a member of the OECD.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (German: die Schweiz[ˈʃvaɪts]; French: Suisse [sɥis(ə)]; Italian: Svizzera [ˈzvit͡sːɛra]; Romansh: Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ] or [ˈʒviːtsʁːɐ]), in its full name the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in western Europe, where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found. Among them are the two global cities and economic centres of Zurich and Geneva.
The Swiss Confederation has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002. It pursues, however, an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. Switzerland is also the birthplace of the Red Cross and home to a large number of international organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association and is part of the Schengen Area – although it is notably not a member of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area.
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Theatre of Nations
Federal Department of Culture's State Theater of Nations Official Site: www.theatreofnations.ru/en
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World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 attacks. The site is being rebuilt with five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. As of November 2011[update], only one skyscraper has been completed; the other four are expected to be completed before 2020. One World Trade Center will be the lead building for the new complex, reaching more than 100 stories at its completion. It became the tallest building in New York City on April 30, 2012, and is expected to be finished by 2013. A sixth tower is awaiting confirmation.
At the time of their completion, the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower), known collectively as the Twin Towers, were the tallest buildings in the world. The other buildings included 3 WTC (the Marriott World Trade Center), 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC (which housed United States Customs), and 7 WTC. All of these buildings were built between 1975 and 1985.
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Zagreb
Zagreb (Croatian pronunciation: [zǎːɡrɛb]) is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately 122 m (400 ft) above sea level. In the last official census of 2011, the population of the settlement of Zagreb was 686,568, while the total population of its administrative area was 792,875. The wider Zagreb metropolitan area includes the City of Zagreb and the separate Zagreb County with a population of 317,642, bringing the total metropolitan area population up to 1,110,517. It is the only metropolitan area in Croatia with a population of over one million.
Its favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides an excellent connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea. The transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and industrial tradition underlie its leading economic position in Croatia. Zagreb is the seat of the central government, administrative bodies and almost all government ministries.
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Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo ˈmɔːro]; September 23, 1916 – May 9, 1978) was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years.
A leader of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy, DC), Moro was considered an intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his party. He was kidnapped on March 16, 1978, by the left-wing Red Brigades (BR), and killed after 55 days of captivity.
Moro was born in Maglie, in the province of Lecce (Puglia), into a family from Ugento. At 4, he moved with his family to Milan, but they soon moved back to Puglia, where he gained a classical high school degree at Archita lyceum in Taranto. Till 1939 he studied Law at the University of Bari, an institution where he was later to hold the post of ordinary professor of philosophy of Law and Colonial Policy (1941) and of Criminal Law (1942).
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Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈɡramʃi]) (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician, political theorist, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.
Gramsci was one of the most important Marxist thinkers in the 20th century. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within modern European thought. He is renowned for his concept of cultural hegemony as a means of maintaining the state in a capitalist society.
Gramsci was born in Ales, on the island of Sardinia. He was the fourth of seven sons of Francesco Gramsci (1860–1937), a low-level official from Gaeta, and his wife, Giuseppina Marcias (1861–1932). Gramsci's father was of Arbëreshë, Albanian descent, while his mother belonged to a local landowning family. The senior Gramsci's financial difficulties and troubles with the police forced the family to move about through several villages in Sardinia until they finally settled in Ghilarza.
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Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈmilo xoˈse ˈθela]; 11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist and short story writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
He offered his services as an informer for Franco's regime and moved voluntarily from Madrid to Galicia during the Civil War in order to join the Francoist forces there.
He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability".
Cela published his first novel, La Familia de Pascual Duarte (The Family of Pascual Duarte), when he was 26, in 1942. Pascual Duarte has trouble finding validity in conventional morality and commits a number of crimes, including murders, for which he feels nothing. In this sense he is similar to Meursault in Albert Camus's novel The Stranger. This novel is also of particular importance as it played a large part in shaping the direction of the post-war Spanish novel.
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Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (born 3 April 1922) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story).
After helming documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He films an episode of L'Amore in Città. Respected for his awarded drama Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as The Violent Four (1968) and Crazy Joe (1974) or erotic comedy Roma Bene (1971).
He worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994.
His film Celluloide deals with the making of Rome, Open City.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of what became known as the "New World".
In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing westward received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia. During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at a locale he named San Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.
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Claude Simon
Claude Simon (10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and died in Paris, France.
His parents were French, his father being a career officer who was killed in the First World War. He grew up with his mother and her family in Perpignan in the middle of the wine district of Roussillon. Among his ancestors was a general from the time of the French Revolution.
After secondary school at Collège Stanislas in Paris and brief sojourns at Oxford and Cambridge he took courses in painting at the André Lhote Academy. He then travelled extensively through Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Greece. This experience as well as those from the Second World War show up in his literary work. At the beginning of the war Claude Simon took part in the battle of the Meuse (1940) and was taken prisoner. He managed to escape and joined the resistance movement. At the same time he completed his first novel, Le Tricheur ("The Cheat", published in 1946), which he had started to write before the war.
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Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz ([ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] ( listen); 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. He defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) is a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Miłosz later became an American citizen and was awarded the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Czesław Miłosz was born on June 30, 1911 in the village of Szetejnie (Lithuanian: Šeteniai), Kaunas Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kėdainiai district, Kaunas County, Lithuania) on the border between two Lithuanian historical regions of Samogitia and Aukštaitija in central Lithuania. He was a son of Aleksander Miłosz (d.1959), a civil engineer, and Weronika, née Kunat (d.1945), descendant of the Siručiai noble family. Miłosz was fluent in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, English and French. His brother, Andrzej Miłosz (1917–2002), a Polish journalist, translator of literature and of film subtitles into Polish, was a documentary-film producer who created Polish documentaries about his brother.
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Dario Fo
Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes.
Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime, political corruption, political murders, most of the Catholic Church doctrine and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, commedia dell'arte style. His plays, especially Mistero Buffo, have been translated into 30 languages and, when performed outside Italy, they are often modified to reflect local political and other issues. Fo encourages directors and translators to modify his plays as they see fit, as he finds this in accordance to the commedia dell'arte tradition of on-stage improvisation.
Fo currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress Franca Rame. Upon awarding him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, the committee highlighted Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".
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Derek Walcott
Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC (born 23 January 1930) is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer, visual artist and receipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His works include the Homeric epic poem, Omeros (1990).Robert Graves wrote that Walcott "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries”.
In 2011, Walcott received the T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry, White Egrets.
Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies with a twin brother, the future playwright Roderick Walcott, and a sister. His family was of mixed race and ethnicity; he had two white grandfathers and two black grandmothers. His family is of African and European descent, reflecting the complex colonial history of the island which he explores in his poetry. His mother, a teacher, loved the arts and often recited poetry around the house. His father, who painted and wrote poetry, died at age 31 from mastoiditis while his wife was pregnant with the twins Derek and Roderick, who were born after his death. Walcott's family was part of a minority Methodist community, who felt overshadowed by the dominant Catholic culture of the island established during French colonial rule.
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Dino De Laurentiis
Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian film producer.
He was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples, and grew up selling spaghetti produced by his father. His studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War.
Following his first movie, L'ultimo Combattimento, (1940) he produced nearly 150 films during the next seven decades. In 1946 his company, the Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, moved into production. In the early years, De Laurentiis produced neorealist films such as Bitter Rice (1946) and the Fellini classics La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1956), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti. In the 1960s, Dino De Laurentiis built his own studio facilities, although these financially collapsed during the 1970s. During this period, though, De Laurentiis produced such films as Barabbas (1961) a Christian religious epic, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, an imitation James Bond film; Navajo Joe (1966), a spaghetti western; Anzio (1968), a World War II film; Barbarella (1968) and Danger: Diabolik (1968), both successful comic book adaptations; and The Valachi Papers made to coincide with the popularity of The Godfather.
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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".
Born to Jacques Canetti and Mathilde née Arditti in Ruse, a city on the Danube in Bulgaria, Elias Canetti was the eldest of three sons of a Jewish businessman. His ancestors were Sephardi Jews who had been expelled from Spain in 1492. His paternal ancestors had settled in Ruse from Ottoman Adrianople. The original family name was Cañete, named after a village in Spain. In Ruse, Elias' father and grandfather were successful merchants who operated out of a commercial building, which they had built in 1898. Canetti's mother descended from one of the oldest Sephardi families in Bulgaria, Arditti, who were among the founders of the Ruse Jewish colony in the late 18th century. The Ardittis can be traced back to the 14th century, when they were court physicians and astronomers to the Aragonese royal court of Alfonso IV and Pedro IV. Before settling in Ruse, they had lived in Livorno in the 17th century.
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Franca Rame
Franca Rame (born 18 July 1928) is an Italian theatre actress and playwright. She is also the wife of Nobel Prize winning author Dario Fo and the mother of the writer Jacopo Fo.
Franca Rame was born in Parabiago, Lombardy, into a family with a long theatre tradition. She made her theatrical debut in 1951. Shortly thereafter, she met Dario Fo, whom she married in 1954. Their son, Jacopo was born on March 31, 1955. In 1958, she co-founded the Dario Fo–Franca Rame Theatre Company in Milan, with Fo as the director and writer, and Rame the leading actress and administrator.
Rame continued working with Fo through many plays and several theatre companies, popular success and government censorship. In the 1970s, Rame began writing plays (often stage monologues) of her own, such as Grasso è bello! and Tutta casa, letto e chiesa, which displayed a markedly feminist bent. In 1973, Rame was abducted, tortured and raped by a fascist group commissioned by high ranking officials in Milan's Carabinieri, the Italian military police. She returned to the stage after two months with new anti-fascist monologues.
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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. An émigré to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. He is a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
Gao was the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama". Gao's drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. His prose works tend to be less celebrated in China but are highly regarded elsewhere in Europe and the West. He once burnt a suitcase packed with manuscripts during the Cultural Revolution to avoid persecution.
Gao's original home town is Taizhou, Jiangsu. Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, Gao has been a French citizen since 1997. In 1992 he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
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Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a German-Kashubian novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely regarded as Germany's most famous living writer.
Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In 1945, he came to West Germany as a homeless refugee, though in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood.
Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism, and the first part of his Danzig Trilogy, which also includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted into a film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Swedish Academy, upon awarding him the Nobel Prize in Literature, noted him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (sometimes spelled Strawinsky or Stravinskii; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, transliterated: Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij; Russian pronunciation: [ˌiɡərʲ ˌfʲjodɐrɐvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj]; 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor. He is acknowledged by many as one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The Rite of Spring, which provoked a riot during its premiere, transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His so-called Russian phase was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony). They frequently concealed a vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or austerity and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for example J.S. Bach and Tchaikovsky. In the 1950s, Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form, of instrumentation and of utterance.
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Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Seifert (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈsajfr̩t] ( listen); 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist.
Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921. He was a member of the Communist Party, the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines - Rovnost, Srsatec, and Reflektor - and the employee of a communist publishing house.
During the 1920s he was considered a leading representative of the Czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde. He was one of the founders of the journal Devětsil. In March 1929, he and six other important communist writers left the Communist Party for signing a manifesto protesting against Bolshevik tendencies in the new leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He subsequently worked as a journalist in the social-democratic and trade union press during the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1949 Seifert left journalism and began to devote himself exclusively to literature. His poetry was awarded important state prizes in 1936, 1955, and 1968, and in 1967 he was designated National Artist. He was the official Chairman of the Czechoslovak Writer's Union for several years (1968–70). In 1977 he was one of the signatories of Charter 77 in opposition to the repressive regime of the time.[citation needed]
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, IPA: [ˈjɵsʲɪf ˈbrotskʲɪj] ( listen); 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), was a Russian poet and essayist.
In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan.
Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed American Poet Laureate in 1991.
Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad. His father, Aleksandr Brodsky, was a professional photographer in the Soviet Navy and his mother, Maria Volpert Brodsky, was a professional interpreter whose work often helped to support the family. They lived in communal apartments, in poverty, marginalized by their Jewish status. In early childhood Brodsky survived the Siege of Leningrad where he and his parents nearly died of starvation; an aunt of his did die of hunger. He later suffered from various health problems caused by the siege. Brodsky commented that many of his teachers were anti-Semitic and that he felt like a dissident from an early age. He noted "I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice ... but because of his omnipresent images."
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José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a permanent part of the Western canon".
Awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, more than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. He founded the National Front for the Defence of Culture (Lisbon, 1992) with Freitas-Magalhães and others. A proponent of libertarian communism, Saramago came into conflict with some groups, such as the Catholic Church. Saramago was an atheist who defended love as an instrument to improve the human condition.
In 1992, the Portuguese government, under Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, ordered the removal of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ from the European Literary Prize's shortlist, claiming the work was religiously offensive. Disheartened by this political censorship of his work, Saramago went into exile on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, upon which he resided until his death in 2010.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō?, born January 31, 1935) is a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism and existentialism.
Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."
Ōe was born in Ōse (大瀬村, Ōse-mura?), a village now in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan. He was the third son of seven children. Ōe's grandmother taught him art and oral performance. His grandmother died in 1944, and later that year, Ōe's father died in the Pacific War. Ōe's mother took over his father's role as educator. The books she bought him - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - left him with an impression Ōe says 'he will carry to the grave'.[citation needed]
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four government investigations, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
A former U.S. Marine who had briefly (October 1959 – June 1962) defected to the Soviet Union, Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, on a Dallas street approximately 40 minutes after Kennedy was shot. Suspected in the assassination of Kennedy as well, Oswald denied involvement in either of the killings. Two days later, while being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras broadcasting live.
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, firing three shots, a conclusion also reached by prior investigations carried out by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Oswald fired the shots which killed Kennedy, but differed from previous investigations in concluding he 'probably' did not act alone. The evidence used to form this conclusion has since been disputed.
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".
Gordimer's writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as July's People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned. She has recently been active in HIV/AIDS causes.
Gordimer was born near Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Jewish immigrants. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a watchmaker from Lithuania near the Latvian border, and her mother Nan was from London.
Gordimer's early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her father's experience as a Jewish refugee in czarist Russia helped form Gordimer's political identity, but he was neither an activist nor particularly sympathetic toward the experiences of black people under apartheid. Conversely, Gordimer saw activism by her mother, whose concern about the poverty and discrimination faced by black people in South Africa ostensibly led her to found a crèche for black children. Gordimer also witnessed government repression firsthand when yet a teenager; the police raided her family home, confiscating letters and diaries from a servant's room.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ Nagīb Maḥfūẓ, IPA: [næˈɡiːb mɑħˈfuːzˤ]; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
Born to a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter of Cairo, Mahfouz was named after Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz (1882–1974), the renowned Coptic physician who delivered him. Mahfouz was the seventh and the youngest child in a family that had five boys and two girls. The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to el-Abbaseyya, then a new Cairo suburb; both provided the backdrop for many of Mahfouz's writings. His father, whom Mahfouz described as having been "old-fashioned", was a civil servant, and Mahfouz eventually followed in his footsteps. In his childhood Mahfouz read extensively. His mother often took him to museums and Egyptian history later became a major theme in many of his books.
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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (Spanish pronunciation: [okˈtaβjo pas loˈsano]; March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Paz was born to Octavio Paz Solórzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of the Revolution against the Díaz regime. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico City) by his mother Josefina (daughter of Spanish immigrants), his aunt Amalia Paz, and his paternal grandfather Ireneo Paz, a liberal intellectual, novelist, publisher and former supporter of President Porfirio Díaz. He studied at Colegio Williams. Because of his family's public support of Emiliano Zapata, they were forced into exile after Zapata's assassination. They served their exile in the United States.
Paz was introduced to literature early in his life through the influence of his grandfather's library, filled with classic Mexican and European literature. During the 1920s, he discovered the European poets Gerardo Diego, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Antonio Machado, Spanish writers who had a great influence on his early writings. As a teenager in 1931, under the influence of D. H. Lawrence, Paz published his first poems, including "Cabellera". Two years later, at the age of 19, he published Luna Silvestre ("Wild Moon"), a collection of poems. In 1932, with some friends, he founded his first literary review, Barandal. By 1939, Paz considered himself first and foremost a poet.[citation needed]
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Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης born Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλης) (November 2, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Descendant of the Alepoudelis, an old industrial family from Lesbos, Elytis was born in Heraklion on the island of Crete, on November 2, 1911. His family later moved to Athens, where the poet graduated from high school and later attended courses as an auditor at the Law School at University of Athens.
In 1935 Elytis published his first poem in the journal New Letters (Νέα Γράμματα) at the prompting of such friends as George Seferis. His entry with a distinctively earthy and original form assisted to inaugurate a new era in Greek poetry and its subsequent reform after the Second World War.
From 1969-1972, under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, Elytis exiled himself to Paris. He was romantically linked to the lyricist and musicologist Mariannina Kriezi, who subsequently produced and hosted the legendary children's radio broadcast "Here Lilliput Land". Elytis was intensely private and vehemently solitary in pursuing his ideals of poetic truth and experience.
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Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende Gossens (Spanish pronunciation: [salβaˈðoɾ aˈʝende ˈɣosens]; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America.
Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years. As a member of the Socialist Party, he was a senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. In 1970, he won the presidency in a close three-way race, formally elected by Congress as no candidate had gained a majority.
Allende adopted the policy of nationalization of industries and collectivization. On 11 September 1973 the military, citing a call by the Chilean Congress to end his presidency, staged a coup against Allende. As the armed forces surrounded La Moneda Palace, Allende gave his last speech vowing not to resign, and committed suicide thereafter. After Allende's ouster, Chile was led by a military junta, and then as a dictatorship by General Augusto Pinochet.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."
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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, he now resides in Dublin.
As well as the Nobel Prize in Literature, Heaney has received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1968), the E. M. Forster Award (1975), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread Prizes (1996 and 1999). He has been a member of Aosdána since its foundation and has been Saoi since 1997. He was both the Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry and was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996. Heaney's personal papers are held by the National Library of Ireland.
Robert Lowell called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have echoed the sentiment that he is "the greatest poet of our age".
<poem> From Mid-Term Break
Wearing a poppy bruise on the left temple, He lay in the four foot box as in a cot. No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
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Stephen Stenning
Stephen Stenning (aka Stephen Bailey) is Director of Edinburgh Mela. He previously was Senior Producer at UZ Ltd. delivering festivals such as Big in Falkirk (Scotland's National Street Arts Festival), "The Merchant City Festival" and working directly with artists and companies. Stephen was Chief Executive of Aberdeen International Youth Festival 2003-2007.
He was formerly Associate Director (Community) of Dundee Rep Theatre. He produced HOME Aberdeen for the National Theatre of Scotland in 2006 directed by Alison Peebles with a cast including Michael Marra.
Stephen Stenning was an actor and he has worked internationally including in Bulgaria, Romania and the United States.
He is a Specialist Advisor to the Scottish Arts Council/Creative Scotland, A Board Member of The Independent Street Arts Network, of Festival's Edinburgh, UZ Arts and Articulation.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and in 1987 the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. In April 2012, it was announced she would be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and on 29 May 2012, she received the award.
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. She is the second of four children in a working-class family. As a child, Morrison read fervently; among her favorite authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. Morrison's father told her numerous folktales of the black community (a method of storytelling that would later work its way into Morrison's writings).
In 1949 Morrison entered Howard University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1953. She earned a Master of Arts degree in English from Cornell University in 1955, for which she wrote a thesis on suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. After graduation, Morrison became an English instructor at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas (1955–57), then returned to Howard to teach English. She became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
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Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26, 1898 – December 14, 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He was part of the Generation of '27. He died in Madrid in 1984.
Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote mostly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. They reflect his feeling that people have lost the passion and free spirit that he saw in nature.
His early collections of poetry include Passion of the Earth (1935) and Destruction or Love (1933). In 1944, he wrote Shadow of Paradise, the poetry where he first began to concentrate on themes such as fellowship, friendliness, and spiritual unity. His later books of poetry include History of the Heart (1954) and In a Vast Dominion (1962).
Aleixandre studied law at the University of Madrid. Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (1977) and A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre (1979; Copper Canyon Press, 2007) (translated by Lewis Hyde).
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William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.
In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
William Golding was born in his grandmother's house, 47 Mountwise, Newquay, Cornwall and he spent many childhood holidays there. He grew up at his family home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father (Alec Golding) was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School (1905 to retirement). Alec Golding was a socialist with a strong commitment to scientific rationalism, and the young Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended the school where his father taught. His mother, Mildred (Curnroe), kept house at 29, The Green, Marlborough, and supported the moderate campaigners for female suffrage. In 1930 Golding went to Oxford University as an undergraduate at Brasenose College, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before transferring to English Literature.
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Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska-Włodek [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska] (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life. She was described as a "Mozart of Poetry". In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors: although she once remarked in a poem, "Some Like Poetry" ("Niektórzy lubią poezję"), that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art.
Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality". She became better known internationally as a result of this. Her work has been translated into English and many European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese.
Wisława Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in Prowent, Poland (present-day Bnin, Kórnik, Poland), the daughter of Wincenty and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborski. Her father was at that time the steward of Count Władysław Zamoyski, a Polish patriot and charitable patron. After the death of Count Zamoyski in 1924, her family moved to Toruń, and in 1931 to Kraków, where she lived and worked until her death in early 2012.
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Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, notable especially as a playwright and poet; he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African in Africa and the diaspora to be so honoured.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. After study in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.
Soyinka has strongly criticized many Nigerian military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it".[citation needed] During the regime of General Sani Abacha (1993–1998), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria via the "Nadeco Route" on motorcycle. Living abroad, mainly in the United States, he was a professor first at Cornell University and then at Emory University in Atlanta, where in 1996 he was appointed Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts. Abacha proclaimed a death sentence against him "in absentia". With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, Soyinka returned to his nation. He has also taught at Oxford, Harvard and Yale.
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Fo, Dario Filmography
- Tutti giù per aria (2012)
- Silvio Forever (2011)
- Primo miracolo (2009)
- Il piccolo (2009)
- Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (2008)
- Viaggio in corso nel cinema di Carlo Lizzani (2007)
- The Puppeteers (2007)
- Io non sono un moderato (2007)
- Canto per Cheikh (2006)
- A Mochila do Mascate (2006)
- Viva Zapatero! (2005)
- Matka Reimsiin (2003)
- Matka Reimsiin (2003)
- Matka Reimsiin (2003)
- Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe (2002)
- Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe (2002)
- Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe (2002)
- L'erba proibita (2002)
- Não Se Paga! Não Se Paga! (1998)
- Dario Fo and Franca Rame: A Nobel for Two (1998)
- La freccia azzurra (1996)
- The Essential History of Europe (1992)
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (1992)
- Le médecin malgré lui (1992)
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (1992)
- Un dia qualsevol (1991)
- Joc de dos (1989)
- Musica per vecchi animali (1989)
- I promessi sposi (1989)
- De tijger (1988)
- A Woman Alone (1988)
- Het eerste mirakel van kindeke Jesus (1988)
- Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas (1987)
- Mort accidental d'un anarquista (1985)
- Vi betaler ikke, vi betaler ikke (1984)
- The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1983)
- Gjøglerne kommer (1982)
- Hohn der Angst (1982)
- Yksinäinen nainen (1982)
- Cantamaggio (1978)
- De man in rok en de man zonder (1976)
- Als schilders konden spreken (1976)
- Lik til salgs (1968)
- En maler kommer sjældent alene (1968)
- Den nakne mannen och mannen i frack (1967)
- Sedma zapovjed bozja - kradi malo manje! (1967)
- Hellere en tyv i huset end en kurre på tråden (1966)
- Alaston mies ja mies frakissa (1965)
- Anteeksiantamatonta huolimattomuutta (1964)
- Kaikki vorot eivät tule varkaisiin (1964)
- Maalareilla ei ole muistoja (1964)
- Follie d'estate (1963)
- Monetine da cinque lire (1959)
- Nata di marzo (1958)
- Souvenir d'Italie (1957)
- Rascel-Fifì (1957)
- Souvenir d'Italie (1957)
- Rascel-Fifì (1957)
- Lo svitato (1956)
- Lo svitato (1956)
- Rosso e nero (1955)
- Scuola elementare (1954)
Famous quotes by Dario Fo:
"I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent."
"We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,"
"It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who live only 20 years, but many, many people remember them because they knew how to live the time that was given to them. I'm not suggesting that you should live only 20 years. Live as long as you can, but from time to time, think '20 years, 20 years, 20 years', and put them together."
"When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories."
"I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better."
"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."
"Know how to live the time that is given you."
"Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished."
"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts."
ALBUMS
- Le dodici parole della verità
- Sunt content de vess al mund
- Da cannu semmu nati
- Nana bobò
- Canto dei battipali
- Ninna nanna a sette e venti
- A lavorar gh'andem prima matina
- Curaggiu bibinnaduri
- La tera cultivada
- So' stato a lavora' a Montesicuro
- Cassisia agghia vintu
- Io partu e su custrittu di partiri
- Lu suldate che va a la guerra
- Fuoco e mitragliatrici
- Avvidecci la me fata
- Lizza delle Apuane
- Regazzine vi prego ascoltare
- Ascoltate oh popolo ignorante
- La tradotta che parte da Novara
- Abballati abballati
- Ballo tondo
- La Pinota
- Accattari vurria 'Na virrinedda
- Donna lombarda
- E cinquecento catenelle d'oro
- Cecilia
- Ma che m'importa a me
- Cade l'uliva
- Belle fijola viéstete li panna
- La disispirata
- Entruma in sa bell'era
- Abballati abballati
- Italia bella mostrati gentile
- Arriva il giorno del giudizio
- Al jorn del judici
- Vi ricordate quel diciotto aprile
- Sent un Po' Gioan te se regor
- Stornelli d'esilio
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3voor12radio - Dario Fo - Skrillex - Bangarang - acapella
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
3FM DJ Roosmarijn asked a Dutch choir to make an acapella version of 'Bangarang' by Skrillex. She got Dario Fo to sing it in her program 3VOOR12RADIO on wednesday the 20th of june. If you want to comment on this video, go to: www.3fm.nl
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3FM DJ Roosmarijn asked a Dutch choir to make an acapella version of 'Bangarang' by Skrillex. She got Dario Fo to sing it in her program 3VOOR12RADIO on wednesday the 20th of june. If you want to comment on this video, go to: www.3fm.nl
Dario Fo & Franca Rame: a Nobel for Two
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 23 Jul 2012
11 min. Trailer
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Presenting A Season Of Dario Fo
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- Duration: 6:22
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
A selection of clips from our productions of Dario Fo's Accidental Death Of An Anarchist and Can't Pay? Won't Pay! The Dario Fo Season ran from December 2009 to March 2010.
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A selection of clips from our productions of Dario Fo's Accidental Death Of An Anarchist and Can't Pay? Won't Pay! The Dario Fo Season ran from December 2009 to March 2010.
- published: 05 Jul 2010
- views: 6354
- author: devioustheatre
Il Caffè Letterario: Dario Fo Racconta Boccaccio
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 101:46
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Geniale e divertente. Con l'ironia e la satira che lo contraddistingue, oltre a una conoscenza magistrale della storia del teatro, della cultura letteraria e storica, che gli permette di parlare e intrattenere, diffondendo conoscenza, approfondimento e spettacolo, con grande maestria e arte del narrare, Dario Fo ci fa conoscere Boccaccio e una storia del tardo medioevo, periodo Dantesco, ben diversa da quella che viene comunemente insegnata a scuola. Nell'introdurci alla storia e alle caratteristiche artistiche del Boccaccio, il nobel nazionale, ci rivela anche l'essere umano che sta dietro all'artista e ne mette a nudo vizi, limiti e virtù. Chiude infine con un grande insegnamento che va al di là del tempo e delle capacità dei soggetti relativo a: il coraggio di dire la verità.
http://wn.com/Il_Caffè_Letterario_Dario_Fo_Racconta_Boccaccio
Geniale e divertente. Con l'ironia e la satira che lo contraddistingue, oltre a una conoscenza magistrale della storia del teatro, della cultura letteraria e storica, che gli permette di parlare e intrattenere, diffondendo conoscenza, approfondimento e spettacolo, con grande maestria e arte del narrare, Dario Fo ci fa conoscere Boccaccio e una storia del tardo medioevo, periodo Dantesco, ben diversa da quella che viene comunemente insegnata a scuola. Nell'introdurci alla storia e alle caratteristiche artistiche del Boccaccio, il nobel nazionale, ci rivela anche l'essere umano che sta dietro all'artista e ne mette a nudo vizi, limiti e virtù. Chiude infine con un grande insegnamento che va al di là del tempo e delle capacità dei soggetti relativo a: il coraggio di dire la verità.
- published: 27 Feb 2011
- views: 19694
- author: belva64SE
Dario Fo: Storia Della Tigre - Il Primo Miracolo Di Gesù Bambino - Dedalo E Icaro.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 115:36
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Tre storie raccontate da Dario Fo, come al solito intrise di saggezza e cultura profonda proposta co0me popolar teatrale, con la maestria narrativa che lo contraddistingue.
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Tre storie raccontate da Dario Fo, come al solito intrise di saggezza e cultura profonda proposta co0me popolar teatrale, con la maestria narrativa che lo contraddistingue.
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 15794
- author: belva64SE
LA FAME DELLO ZANNI
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- Duration: 7:57
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Dario fo' illustra con lo stile e il linguaggio dei giullari del 1500 la fame di un contadino ridotto allo stremo dalla nascita delle città. Per informazioni dettagliate sull'origine del Grammelot: it.wikipedia.org
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Dario fo' illustra con lo stile e il linguaggio dei giullari del 1500 la fame di un contadino ridotto allo stremo dalla nascita delle città. Per informazioni dettagliate sull'origine del Grammelot: it.wikipedia.org
- published: 22 Mar 2007
- views: 85012
- author: teotibi
Mistero Buffo - Dario Fo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 137:33
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
www.estasia.info Rai 22/04/1977 Regia: Dario Fo Guido Tosi Interpreti: Dario Fo; Franca Rame
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www.estasia.info Rai 22/04/1977 Regia: Dario Fo Guido Tosi Interpreti: Dario Fo; Franca Rame
- published: 13 Nov 2011
- views: 37718
- author: estasiarte
Dario Fo ci racconta la crisi
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:49
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
www.cadoinpiedi.it E' la più grossa truffa che potevano farci, perché ci hanno tolto la serenità, i sogni, la voglia di agire, il piacere di lavorare, il piacere di vivere. Oggi si sta sopravvivendo, si tira a campare e si spera che succeda qualcosa che cambi la situazione. Meritano la galera
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www.cadoinpiedi.it E' la più grossa truffa che potevano farci, perché ci hanno tolto la serenità, i sogni, la voglia di agire, il piacere di lavorare, il piacere di vivere. Oggi si sta sopravvivendo, si tira a campare e si spera che succeda qualcosa che cambi la situazione. Meritano la galera
- published: 18 Apr 2012
- views: 43931
- author: Voglio Scendere
Dario fo-le malefatte di Bonifacio VIII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:24
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Video di apertura della giullarata su Bonifacio VIII. Fra Dolcino e un o spaccato della politica italiana degli anni 7. Divertentissimo
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Video di apertura della giullarata su Bonifacio VIII. Fra Dolcino e un o spaccato della politica italiana degli anni 7. Divertentissimo
- published: 12 May 2012
- views: 1358
- author: Davide Ursi
DARIO FO a Vieni via con me di Fabio FAZIO e Roberto SAVIANO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:00
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Dario Fo legge l'elenco delle cose che ancora oggi Machiavelli avrebbe da dire a chi governa il popolo italiano. Guarda tutti i video dell'ultima puntata sul sito: www.vieniviaconme.rai.it
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Dario Fo legge l'elenco delle cose che ancora oggi Machiavelli avrebbe da dire a chi governa il popolo italiano. Guarda tutti i video dell'ultima puntata sul sito: www.vieniviaconme.rai.it
- published: 29 Nov 2010
- views: 90149
- author: rai
Dario Fo - satira su Berlusconi parte 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:35
- Updated: 06 Nov 2012
satira su Berlusconi di qualche anno fa con Veronica Lario tra il pubblico
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satira su Berlusconi di qualche anno fa con Veronica Lario tra il pubblico
- published: 22 Dec 2006
- views: 158029
- author: tusco84
Think Different Italian Version (hd)
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- Duration: 1:03
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
il video Think Different in italiano e in hd 720p
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il video Think Different in italiano e in hd 720p
- published: 09 Mar 2009
- views: 20672
- author: nicolosi12
The-Kyteman-Orchestra-Theaterkoor-Dario-Fo
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- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Kyteman, Kyteman Orchestra, Theaterkoor Dario Fo, Theaterkoor, Dario Fo, Vakklas Zang, Giel Beelen, Kytopia
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Kyteman, Kyteman Orchestra, Theaterkoor Dario Fo, Theaterkoor, Dario Fo, Vakklas Zang, Giel Beelen, Kytopia
- published: 03 Apr 2012
- views: 1681
- author: theaterkoordariofo
DARIO FO: Drawings&Paintings;
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- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Video clip with many drawings and paintings made by the Nobel Prize for literature 1997Dario Fo with Martha's song soundtrack
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Video clip with many drawings and paintings made by the Nobel Prize for literature 1997Dario Fo with Martha's song soundtrack
- published: 04 Jun 2008
- views: 5090
- author: DarioFoVideo
E se domani 2011 - Intervista a Dario Fo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:41
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Parantesi extrascientifica per "E se domani": Alex Zanardi intervista Dario Fo, Premio Nobel per la letteratura, e molto altro. Le playlist scientifiche sono su www.rai.tv
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Parantesi extrascientifica per "E se domani": Alex Zanardi intervista Dario Fo, Premio Nobel per la letteratura, e molto altro. Le playlist scientifiche sono su www.rai.tv
- published: 23 Jan 2012
- views: 874
- author: RAiscienze
L'intervento di Dario Fo e Franca Rame al "No B. Day"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:50
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/L'intervento_di_Dario_Fo_e_Franca_Rame_al_No_B_Day
Siamo in un mondo di disinformazione
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:01
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Dario Fo: cronaca nera e morti bianche. "Napolitano dovrebbe parlare tutti i giorni delle morti sul lavoro"
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Dario Fo: cronaca nera e morti bianche. "Napolitano dovrebbe parlare tutti i giorni delle morti sul lavoro"
- published: 15 Oct 2007
- views: 134730
- author: RaiNews24
Dario Fo - 22/10/2011 Che tempo che fa
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:58
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Che tempo che fa 22 ottobre 2011 - Il premio Nobel per la Letteratura, presenta il suo ultimo libro Dio è nero! Il fantastico racconto dell'evoluzione Guarda tutti i video della puntata su: www.rai.tv
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Che tempo che fa 22 ottobre 2011 - Il premio Nobel per la Letteratura, presenta il suo ultimo libro Dio è nero! Il fantastico racconto dell'evoluzione Guarda tutti i video della puntata su: www.rai.tv
- published: 22 Oct 2011
- views: 12009
- author: rai
DARIO FO E L'ELENCO MACHIAVELLO a VIENI VIA CON ME 29/11/2010
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:25
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
DARIO FO E L'ELENCO MACHIAVELLO a VIENI VIA CON ME 29/11/2010
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DARIO FO E L'ELENCO MACHIAVELLO a VIENI VIA CON ME 29/11/2010
- published: 29 Nov 2010
- views: 42178
- author: TempiScaduti
Dario Fo, "Morte accidentale di un anarchico". Il caso Pinelli (parte 1)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Introduzione di Jacopo Fo a "Morte accidentale di un anarchico" scritto da Dario Fo e basato sulla morte dell'anarchico Giuseppe Pinelli precipitato da una finestra al 4° piano della questura di Milano pochi giorni dopo la strage di Piazza Fontana.
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo,_Morte_accidentale_di_un_anarchico_Il_caso_Pinelli_parte_1
Introduzione di Jacopo Fo a "Morte accidentale di un anarchico" scritto da Dario Fo e basato sulla morte dell'anarchico Giuseppe Pinelli precipitato da una finestra al 4° piano della questura di Milano pochi giorni dopo la strage di Piazza Fontana.
- published: 08 Jan 2009
- views: 16667
- author: NoOneWorldGovernment
fra dolcino
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:55
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Storia resa in modo incomparabile da Dario Fo nel Mistero Buffo, del famoso frate "eretico"
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Storia resa in modo incomparabile da Dario Fo nel Mistero Buffo, del famoso frate "eretico"
- published: 16 Jan 2009
- views: 25153
- author: attiliob2008
3voor12radio - Dario Fo - Skrillex - Bangarang
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:23
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Het is wobwob woensdag bij 3voor12radio en speciaal daarvoor heeft Dario Fo Bangarang van Skrillex ingestudeerd. Maar voordat Dario Fo in de studio staat.....
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Het is wobwob woensdag bij 3voor12radio en speciaal daarvoor heeft Dario Fo Bangarang van Skrillex ingestudeerd. Maar voordat Dario Fo in de studio staat.....
- published: 20 Jun 2012
- views: 19888
- author: 3fm
Dario Fo - Fallotropia e violenza da impotenza - Il sesso visto dai giullari - 1996
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- Duration: 60:18
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
La descrizione è superflua. Purtroppo il documento è un po' rovinato e il sincronismo, si è perso, ma grazie alle capacità di FO' resta comunque un ottima rappresentazione. Anche tentando il ripristino di frame per secondo, questo è uno dei risultati più accettabili
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_Fallotropia_e_violenza_da_impotenza_Il_sesso_visto_dai_giullari_1996
La descrizione è superflua. Purtroppo il documento è un po' rovinato e il sincronismo, si è perso, ma grazie alle capacità di FO' resta comunque un ottima rappresentazione. Anche tentando il ripristino di frame per secondo, questo è uno dei risultati più accettabili
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 5890
- author: belva64SE
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Il Caffè Letterario: Dario Fo Racconta Boccaccio
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 101:46
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Geniale e divertente. Con l'ironia e la satira che lo contraddistingue, oltre a una conoscenza magistrale della storia del teatro, della cultura letteraria e storica, che gli permette di parlare e intrattenere, diffondendo conoscenza, approfondimento e spettacolo, con grande maestria e arte del narrare, Dario Fo ci fa conoscere Boccaccio e una storia del tardo medioevo, periodo Dantesco, ben diversa da quella che viene comunemente insegnata a scuola. Nell'introdurci alla storia e alle caratteristiche artistiche del Boccaccio, il nobel nazionale, ci rivela anche l'essere umano che sta dietro all'artista e ne mette a nudo vizi, limiti e virtù. Chiude infine con un grande insegnamento che va al di là del tempo e delle capacità dei soggetti relativo a: il coraggio di dire la verità.
http://wn.com/Il_Caffè_Letterario_Dario_Fo_Racconta_Boccaccio
Geniale e divertente. Con l'ironia e la satira che lo contraddistingue, oltre a una conoscenza magistrale della storia del teatro, della cultura letteraria e storica, che gli permette di parlare e intrattenere, diffondendo conoscenza, approfondimento e spettacolo, con grande maestria e arte del narrare, Dario Fo ci fa conoscere Boccaccio e una storia del tardo medioevo, periodo Dantesco, ben diversa da quella che viene comunemente insegnata a scuola. Nell'introdurci alla storia e alle caratteristiche artistiche del Boccaccio, il nobel nazionale, ci rivela anche l'essere umano che sta dietro all'artista e ne mette a nudo vizi, limiti e virtù. Chiude infine con un grande insegnamento che va al di là del tempo e delle capacità dei soggetti relativo a: il coraggio di dire la verità.
- published: 27 Feb 2011
- views: 19694
- author: belva64SE
Dario Fo: Storia Della Tigre - Il Primo Miracolo Di Gesù Bambino - Dedalo E Icaro.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 115:36
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Tre storie raccontate da Dario Fo, come al solito intrise di saggezza e cultura profonda proposta co0me popolar teatrale, con la maestria narrativa che lo contraddistingue.
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_Storia_Della_Tigre_Il_Primo_Miracolo_Di_Gesù_Bambino_Dedalo_E_Icaro
Tre storie raccontate da Dario Fo, come al solito intrise di saggezza e cultura profonda proposta co0me popolar teatrale, con la maestria narrativa che lo contraddistingue.
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 15646
- author: belva64SE
Mistero Buffo - Dario Fo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 137:33
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
www.estasia.info Rai 22/04/1977 Regia: Dario Fo Guido Tosi Interpreti: Dario Fo; Franca Rame
http://wn.com/Mistero_Buffo_Dario_Fo
www.estasia.info Rai 22/04/1977 Regia: Dario Fo Guido Tosi Interpreti: Dario Fo; Franca Rame
- published: 13 Nov 2011
- views: 37441
- author: estasiarte
Dario fo-le malefatte di Bonifacio VIII
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:24
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
Video di apertura della giullarata su Bonifacio VIII. Fra Dolcino e un o spaccato della politica italiana degli anni 7. Divertentissimo
http://wn.com/Dario_fo-le_malefatte_di_Bonifacio_VIII
Video di apertura della giullarata su Bonifacio VIII. Fra Dolcino e un o spaccato della politica italiana degli anni 7. Divertentissimo
- published: 12 May 2012
- views: 1294
- author: Davide Ursi
Dario Fo E Giorgio Albertazzi Raccontano Il Teatro In Italia 4° I Giullari E Federico
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:31
- Updated: 19 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_E_Giorgio_Albertazzi_Raccontano_Il_Teatro_In_Italia_4°_I_Giullari_E_Federico
Dario Fo in the story of John Horse, a black Seminole indian
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 28:04
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Hollywood films on american indians always tell us of indians been defeated. In this video Dario Fo tell us a different story never been told before. The story is the one about the epic John Horse, who fought against the American troops during the second Seminole war (1835-1842). dubbing Mario Pirovano
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_in_the_story_of_John_Horse,_a_black_Seminole_indian
Hollywood films on american indians always tell us of indians been defeated. In this video Dario Fo tell us a different story never been told before. The story is the one about the epic John Horse, who fought against the American troops during the second Seminole war (1835-1842). dubbing Mario Pirovano
- published: 24 Feb 2011
- views: 1468
- author: jacopofo2
Dario Fo - 22/10/2011 Che tempo che fa
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:58
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Che tempo che fa 22 ottobre 2011 - Il premio Nobel per la Letteratura, presenta il suo ultimo libro Dio è nero! Il fantastico racconto dell'evoluzione Guarda tutti i video della puntata su: www.rai.tv
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_22_10_2011_Che_tempo_che_fa
Che tempo che fa 22 ottobre 2011 - Il premio Nobel per la Letteratura, presenta il suo ultimo libro Dio è nero! Il fantastico racconto dell'evoluzione Guarda tutti i video della puntata su: www.rai.tv
- published: 22 Oct 2011
- views: 12002
- author: rai
Dario Fo - Fallotropia e violenza da impotenza - Il sesso visto dai giullari - 1996
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 60:18
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
La descrizione è superflua. Purtroppo il documento è un po' rovinato e il sincronismo, si è perso, ma grazie alle capacità di FO' resta comunque un ottima rappresentazione. Anche tentando il ripristino di frame per secondo, questo è uno dei risultati più accettabili
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_Fallotropia_e_violenza_da_impotenza_Il_sesso_visto_dai_giullari_1996
La descrizione è superflua. Purtroppo il documento è un po' rovinato e il sincronismo, si è perso, ma grazie alle capacità di FO' resta comunque un ottima rappresentazione. Anche tentando il ripristino di frame per secondo, questo è uno dei risultati più accettabili
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 5814
- author: belva64SE
Dario Fo - Morte accidentale di un anarchico
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 120:26
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Spettacolo di Dario Fo e Franca Rame sull'episodio della morte "accidentale" di Giuseppe Pinelli. Quest'opera, a causa dei temi trattati al suo interno, venne a lungo censurata in Italia
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_Morte_accidentale_di_un_anarchico
Spettacolo di Dario Fo e Franca Rame sull'episodio della morte "accidentale" di Giuseppe Pinelli. Quest'opera, a causa dei temi trattati al suo interno, venne a lungo censurata in Italia
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 23578
- author: Selahlively
Dario Fo & Franca Rame - L'anomalo Bicefalo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 136:48
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Spettacolo esilarante di un maestro di altri tempi. Registrato il 21 dicembre 2003
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_Franca_Rame_L'anomalo_Bicefalo
Spettacolo esilarante di un maestro di altri tempi. Registrato il 21 dicembre 2003
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 10291
- author: Selahlively
L'intervento di Dario Fo all'Università Valle Giulia di Roma
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:09
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
11 novembre 2008 MicroMega
http://wn.com/L'intervento_di_Dario_Fo_all'Università_Valle_Giulia_di_Roma
Dario Fo: La Bibbia dei villani
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 52:09
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Ogni regione dItalia cela nella cultura orale delle sue origini racconti fantastici legati alle figure bibliche e religiose. La Bibbia dei villani (Guanda) di Dario Fo e Franca Rame nasce dallesigenza di raccoglierli perché non vadano perduti. Ne viene fuori una storia di meraviglie e di storture, di miracoli e di stragi, di crudeltà e di tenerezza.
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_La_Bibbia_dei_villani
Ogni regione dItalia cela nella cultura orale delle sue origini racconti fantastici legati alle figure bibliche e religiose. La Bibbia dei villani (Guanda) di Dario Fo e Franca Rame nasce dallesigenza di raccoglierli perché non vadano perduti. Ne viene fuori una storia di meraviglie e di storture, di miracoli e di stragi, di crudeltà e di tenerezza.
- published: 27 Apr 2010
- views: 25309
- author: libreriefeltrinelli
Dario Fo in Normale in Normale - 11 giugno 1999
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 107:01
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_in_Normale_in_Normale_11_giugno_1999
Lezione d'arte di Dario Fo - Caravaggio al tempo di Caravaggio (parte I ).avi
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 47:02
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/Lezione_d'arte_di_Dario_Fo_Caravaggio_al_tempo_di_Caravaggio_parte_I_avi
Lezione d'arte di Dario Fo - Caravaggio al tempo di Caravaggio (parte II )
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:13
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/Lezione_d'arte_di_Dario_Fo_Caravaggio_al_tempo_di_Caravaggio_parte_II_
LIFE - Dario Fo ospite di Tiziana Panella
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:37
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
Tiziana Panella intervista Dario Fo sull'ultimo suo libro, sul rapporto tra il sacro e l'osceno un legame che si perde nei tempi
http://wn.com/LIFE_Dario_Fo_ospite_di_Tiziana_Panella
Tiziana Panella intervista Dario Fo sull'ultimo suo libro, sul rapporto tra il sacro e l'osceno un legame che si perde nei tempi
- published: 03 Dec 2010
- views: 1917
- author: la7
Dario Fo e Giorgio Albertazzi raccontano Il Teatro in Italia 06 Gli attori a corte
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 50:33
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
http://wn.com/Dario_Fo_e_Giorgio_Albertazzi_raccontano_Il_Teatro_in_Italia_06_Gli_attori_a_corte
Incontro con Vauro. Partecipa Dario FO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 54:21
- Updated: 18 Apr 2012
Nella Città Eterna sogni e speranze, risate e dolori, desideri e negazioni si mescolano, si incontrano, si scontrano. Storie di immigrati e di prostitute, di poliziotti e di preti, in un balletto di vite che va in scena sul palcoscenico di una metropoli dal volto bonario ma densa di insidie, soprattutto se hai la pelle di un altro colore. La scatola dei calzini perduti (Piemme) è il nuovo romanzo di Vauro Senesi, scrittore, giornalista e vignettista meglio noto al grande pubblico semplicemente come Vauro. Lautore presenta il libro insieme a Dario Fo.
http://wn.com/Incontro_con_Vauro_Partecipa_Dario_FO
Nella Città Eterna sogni e speranze, risate e dolori, desideri e negazioni si mescolano, si incontrano, si scontrano. Storie di immigrati e di prostitute, di poliziotti e di preti, in un balletto di vite che va in scena sul palcoscenico di una metropoli dal volto bonario ma densa di insidie, soprattutto se hai la pelle di un altro colore. La scatola dei calzini perduti (Piemme) è il nuovo romanzo di Vauro Senesi, scrittore, giornalista e vignettista meglio noto al grande pubblico semplicemente come Vauro. Lautore presenta il libro insieme a Dario Fo.
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 619
- author: libreriefeltrinelli
ZERO Investigation Into 9/11 - Full Length
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 104:55
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
zero911movie.com | ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary from Italian production company Telemaco explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account. Featuring presentations from intellectual heavy weights; Gore Vidal, and Noble Prize winner Dario Fo, the film challenges assumptions surrounding the attacks. In the words of the Italian daily newspaper, Il Corriere de da Sera, "What results is a sequence of contradictions, gaps, and omissions of stunning gravity." The importance of this film can not be overstated. If its thesis is correct, the justification for going to war in Iraq is built on a series of outrageous lies. cms.ae911truth.org | http www.truthaction.org | http www.infowars.com | http
http://wn.com/ZERO_Investigation_Into_9_11_Full_Length
zero911movie.com | ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary from Italian production company Telemaco explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account. Featuring presentations from intellectual heavy weights; Gore Vidal, and Noble Prize winner Dario Fo, the film challenges assumptions surrounding the attacks. In the words of the Italian daily newspaper, Il Corriere de da Sera, "What results is a sequence of contradictions, gaps, and omissions of stunning gravity." The importance of this film can not be overstated. If its thesis is correct, the justification for going to war in Iraq is built on a series of outrageous lies. cms.ae911truth.org | http www.truthaction.org | http www.infowars.com | http
- published: 05 Jan 2011
- views: 16091
- author: Mike Fulmer
L'Anomalo Bicefalo Dario Fo E Franca Rame 2003
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 139:38
- Updated: 12 Aug 2012
Chi lo conosce lo guarda e chi non lo conosce lo guardi.
http://wn.com/L'Anomalo_Bicefalo_Dario_Fo_E_Franca_Rame_2003
Chi lo conosce lo guarda e chi non lo conosce lo guardi.
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 757
- author: belva64SE
Luttazzi - Dario Fo - 11/04/01.avi
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 49:59
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Prima parte dell'undicesima puntata di Satyricon, lo show di Daniele Luttazzi, andata in onda l'11 Aprile 2001. Intervista a Dario Fo.
http://wn.com/Luttazzi_Dario_Fo_11_04_01avi
Prima parte dell'undicesima puntata di Satyricon, lo show di Daniele Luttazzi, andata in onda l'11 Aprile 2001. Intervista a Dario Fo.
- published: 23 Apr 2011
- views: 7553
- author: Khether
Ubù, la vera storia di Berlusconi di DARIO FO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 40:24
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
dissacrante ironica rappresentazione teatrale del truffaldino nano. opss Ubù
http://wn.com/Ubù,_la_vera_storia_di_Berlusconi_di_DARIO_FO
dissacrante ironica rappresentazione teatrale del truffaldino nano. opss Ubù
- published: 17 Oct 2011
- views: 9897
- author: 74IC
Virtuous Burglar Comedy Play
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:51
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
A theater production of Dario Fo's play about two promiscuous couples unsuspectingly exposed by a burglar who is virtuously loyal to his nagging wife. A rib-tickling comedy of errors. Takes One to Know One Theater Company, Hyderabad
http://wn.com/Virtuous_Burglar_Comedy_Play
A theater production of Dario Fo's play about two promiscuous couples unsuspectingly exposed by a burglar who is virtuously loyal to his nagging wife. A rib-tickling comedy of errors. Takes One to Know One Theater Company, Hyderabad
- published: 05 May 2012
- views: 417
- author: directorkkk
101:46
Il Caffè Letterario: Dario Fo Racconta Boccaccio
Geniale e divertente. Con l'ironia e la satira che lo contraddistingue, oltre a una conosc...
published: 27 Feb 2011
author: belva64SE
Il Caffè Letterario: Dario Fo Racconta Boccaccio
Geniale e divertente. Con l'ironia e la satira che lo contraddistingue, oltre a una conoscenza magistrale della storia del teatro, della cultura letteraria e storica, che gli permette di parlare e intrattenere, diffondendo conoscenza, approfondimento e spettacolo, con grande maestria e arte del narrare, Dario Fo ci fa conoscere Boccaccio e una storia del tardo medioevo, periodo Dantesco, ben diversa da quella che viene comunemente insegnata a scuola. Nell'introdurci alla storia e alle caratteristiche artistiche del Boccaccio, il nobel nazionale, ci rivela anche l'essere umano che sta dietro all'artista e ne mette a nudo vizi, limiti e virtù. Chiude infine con un grande insegnamento che va al di là del tempo e delle capacità dei soggetti relativo a: il coraggio di dire la verità.
- published: 27 Feb 2011
- views: 19694
- author: belva64SE
115:36
Dario Fo: Storia Della Tigre - Il Primo Miracolo Di Gesù Bambino - Dedalo E Icaro.
Tre storie raccontate da Dario Fo, come al solito intrise di saggezza e cultura profonda p...
published: 01 Mar 2011
author: belva64SE
Dario Fo: Storia Della Tigre - Il Primo Miracolo Di Gesù Bambino - Dedalo E Icaro.
Tre storie raccontate da Dario Fo, come al solito intrise di saggezza e cultura profonda proposta co0me popolar teatrale, con la maestria narrativa che lo contraddistingue.
- published: 01 Mar 2011
- views: 15646
- author: belva64SE
137:33
Mistero Buffo - Dario Fo
www.estasia.info Rai 22/04/1977 Regia: Dario Fo Guido Tosi Interpreti: Dario Fo; Franca Ra...
published: 13 Nov 2011
author: estasiarte
Mistero Buffo - Dario Fo
www.estasia.info Rai 22/04/1977 Regia: Dario Fo Guido Tosi Interpreti: Dario Fo; Franca Rame
- published: 13 Nov 2011
- views: 37441
- author: estasiarte
23:24
Dario fo-le malefatte di Bonifacio VIII
Video di apertura della giullarata su Bonifacio VIII. Fra Dolcino e un o spaccato della po...
published: 12 May 2012
author: Davide Ursi
Dario fo-le malefatte di Bonifacio VIII
Video di apertura della giullarata su Bonifacio VIII. Fra Dolcino e un o spaccato della politica italiana degli anni 7. Divertentissimo
- published: 12 May 2012
- views: 1294
- author: Davide Ursi
63:31
Dario Fo E Giorgio Albertazzi Raccontano Il Teatro In Italia 4° I Giullari E Federico
...
published: 19 Oct 2012
author: DI NUOVO AMLETO
Dario Fo E Giorgio Albertazzi Raccontano Il Teatro In Italia 4° I Giullari E Federico
- published: 19 Oct 2012
- views: 97
- author: DI NUOVO AMLETO
28:04
Dario Fo in the story of John Horse, a black Seminole indian
Hollywood films on american indians always tell us of indians been defeated. In this video...
published: 24 Feb 2011
author: jacopofo2
Dario Fo in the story of John Horse, a black Seminole indian
Hollywood films on american indians always tell us of indians been defeated. In this video Dario Fo tell us a different story never been told before. The story is the one about the epic John Horse, who fought against the American troops during the second Seminole war (1835-1842). dubbing Mario Pirovano
- published: 24 Feb 2011
- views: 1468
- author: jacopofo2
24:58
Dario Fo - 22/10/2011 Che tempo che fa
Che tempo che fa 22 ottobre 2011 - Il premio Nobel per la Letteratura, presenta il suo ult...
published: 22 Oct 2011
author: rai
Dario Fo - 22/10/2011 Che tempo che fa
Che tempo che fa 22 ottobre 2011 - Il premio Nobel per la Letteratura, presenta il suo ultimo libro Dio è nero! Il fantastico racconto dell'evoluzione Guarda tutti i video della puntata su: www.rai.tv
- published: 22 Oct 2011
- views: 12002
- author: rai
60:18
Dario Fo - Fallotropia e violenza da impotenza - Il sesso visto dai giullari - 1996
La descrizione è superflua. Purtroppo il documento è un po' rovinato e il sincronismo, si ...
published: 13 Feb 2011
author: belva64SE
Dario Fo - Fallotropia e violenza da impotenza - Il sesso visto dai giullari - 1996
La descrizione è superflua. Purtroppo il documento è un po' rovinato e il sincronismo, si è perso, ma grazie alle capacità di FO' resta comunque un ottima rappresentazione. Anche tentando il ripristino di frame per secondo, questo è uno dei risultati più accettabili
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 5814
- author: belva64SE
120:26
Dario Fo - Morte accidentale di un anarchico
Spettacolo di Dario Fo e Franca Rame sull'episodio della morte "accidentale" di Giuseppe P...
published: 08 Jul 2011
author: Selahlively
Dario Fo - Morte accidentale di un anarchico
Spettacolo di Dario Fo e Franca Rame sull'episodio della morte "accidentale" di Giuseppe Pinelli. Quest'opera, a causa dei temi trattati al suo interno, venne a lungo censurata in Italia
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 23578
- author: Selahlively
136:48
Dario Fo & Franca Rame - L'anomalo Bicefalo
Spettacolo esilarante di un maestro di altri tempi. Registrato il 21 dicembre 2003...
published: 06 Jul 2011
author: Selahlively
Dario Fo & Franca Rame - L'anomalo Bicefalo
Spettacolo esilarante di un maestro di altri tempi. Registrato il 21 dicembre 2003
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 10291
- author: Selahlively
48:09
L'intervento di Dario Fo all'Università Valle Giulia di Roma
11 novembre 2008 MicroMega...
published: 25 Apr 2011
author: redazioneMicroMega
L'intervento di Dario Fo all'Università Valle Giulia di Roma
11 novembre 2008 MicroMega
- published: 25 Apr 2011
- views: 60
- author: redazioneMicroMega
52:09
Dario Fo: La Bibbia dei villani
Ogni regione dItalia cela nella cultura orale delle sue origini racconti fantastici legati...
published: 27 Apr 2010
author: libreriefeltrinelli
Dario Fo: La Bibbia dei villani
Ogni regione dItalia cela nella cultura orale delle sue origini racconti fantastici legati alle figure bibliche e religiose. La Bibbia dei villani (Guanda) di Dario Fo e Franca Rame nasce dallesigenza di raccoglierli perché non vadano perduti. Ne viene fuori una storia di meraviglie e di storture, di miracoli e di stragi, di crudeltà e di tenerezza.
- published: 27 Apr 2010
- views: 25309
- author: libreriefeltrinelli
107:01
Dario Fo in Normale in Normale - 11 giugno 1999
...
published: 23 Nov 2012
author: ScuolaNormale
Dario Fo in Normale in Normale - 11 giugno 1999
- published: 23 Nov 2012
- views: 57
- author: ScuolaNormale
Vimeo results:
7:52
OFFENE ZWEIERBEZIEHUNG Dario Fo
Theater
Kamera, Zusammenstellung und Schnitt: Stephan Samuel www.wirksam45.de...
published: 07 Oct 2011
author: Theater Poetenpack
OFFENE ZWEIERBEZIEHUNG Dario Fo
Theater
Kamera, Zusammenstellung und Schnitt: Stephan Samuel www.wirksam45.de
16:37
DARIO FO ALLA PAOLO GRASSI
Dario Fo meets the Paolo Grassi School of Milan and the Nico Pepe Academy of Udine....
published: 18 Sep 2012
author: giovanni covini
DARIO FO ALLA PAOLO GRASSI
Dario Fo meets the Paolo Grassi School of Milan and the Nico Pepe Academy of Udine.
Youtube results:
22:37
LIFE - Dario Fo ospite di Tiziana Panella
Tiziana Panella intervista Dario Fo sull'ultimo suo libro, sul rapporto tra il sacro e l'o...
published: 03 Dec 2010
author: la7
LIFE - Dario Fo ospite di Tiziana Panella
Tiziana Panella intervista Dario Fo sull'ultimo suo libro, sul rapporto tra il sacro e l'osceno un legame che si perde nei tempi
- published: 03 Dec 2010
- views: 1917
- author: la7
50:33
Dario Fo e Giorgio Albertazzi raccontano Il Teatro in Italia 06 Gli attori a corte
...
published: 18 Oct 2012
author: DI NUOVO AMLETO
Dario Fo e Giorgio Albertazzi raccontano Il Teatro in Italia 06 Gli attori a corte
- published: 18 Oct 2012
- views: 221
- author: DI NUOVO AMLETO
54:21
Incontro con Vauro. Partecipa Dario FO
Nella Città Eterna sogni e speranze, risate e dolori, desideri e negazioni si mescolano, s...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: libreriefeltrinelli
Incontro con Vauro. Partecipa Dario FO
Nella Città Eterna sogni e speranze, risate e dolori, desideri e negazioni si mescolano, si incontrano, si scontrano. Storie di immigrati e di prostitute, di poliziotti e di preti, in un balletto di vite che va in scena sul palcoscenico di una metropoli dal volto bonario ma densa di insidie, soprattutto se hai la pelle di un altro colore. La scatola dei calzini perduti (Piemme) è il nuovo romanzo di Vauro Senesi, scrittore, giornalista e vignettista meglio noto al grande pubblico semplicemente come Vauro. Lautore presenta il libro insieme a Dario Fo.
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 619
- author: libreriefeltrinelli
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
29 Dec 2012
Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for burial ... Gatherings of more than five people have been banned in the city centre ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
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The Examiner
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Nobel Prize-winning Italian actor/firebrand Dario Fo would perform entire shows in grammelot, a mishmash of sounds meant to approximate the language of whichever political group he happened to be skewering ... Dario Fo's plays include "Accidental Death of an Anarchist", "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!", and "Mistero Buffo" ... Dario Fo and Franca Rame are still active....(size: 2.1Kb)
The Hindu
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Three writers on three economic classes in a play with three stories. Trip Venturella, who plays Nick Bottom in the play, warned director Ishwar Shunya of the risks of fooling around with Shakespeare ... Shunya has directed three serious plays recently — Valentin Krasnogorov’s Let’s Have Sex followed by Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Orgasm and Trace Crawford’s The Sum of Your Experiences. Varoon P ... Keywords....(size: 2.7Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
15 Dec 2012
Backed by scores of civil rights groups, anti-racist movements and imposing intellectuals, including Nobel laureates Dario Fo and Bernard Kouchner, organizers took to the streets, leading a silent yet symbolic march from the nation’s legislature to the Acropolis – one emblem of democracy to another – in what they called “a ......(size: 32.2Kb)
Foreign Policy
13 Dec 2012
... actor and playwright Dario Fo, and the economist Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote the preface to a book Grillo recently published online about Italian labor law." The article's author, Tom Mueller, seemed positively enraptured as Grillo "picked up a guitar and sang, in a sultry Ray Charles baritone, a song he called 'The Sardinia Blues.'"....(size: 6.3Kb)
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The Los Angeles Times
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A new musical about the transgender mayor of Silverton, Ore., is part of the 2013 slate at Seattle's Intiman Theatre ... The Intiman's 2012 festival included four productions, including a new stage work by sex columnist Dan Savage ... The Intiman's 2013 festival will also include a revival of Alice Childress' "Trouble in Mind," the Aristophanes classic "Lysistrata" and Nobel laureate Dario> Fo's "We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!" . ALSO.....(size: 31.5Kb)
The Examiner
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An Ensemble Member since 2009, Franklin became the company’s Administrative Director in 2010 ... Trouble In Mind (Alice Childress) directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton; the classic Lysistrata (Aristophanes) directed by Sheila Daniels, Stu for Silverton (a musical, book by Peter Duchan, music and lyrics by Breedlove) directed by Intiman Artistic Director Andrew Russell; and We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (Dario Fo) directed by Jane Nichols ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
Seattle Times
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After a well-attended 2012 summer season that brought the company back from a severe financial crisis, Seattle's Intiman Theatre plans to return in 2013 in the same format ... 15 ... race, sex, politics and money." ... "We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!," a satirical comedy by Italian farceur Dario Fo ("Accidental Death of an Anarchist"), about housewives trying to conceal their larcenous protest against the high price of groceries ... Adds Kellerman ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
The New York Times
27 Nov 2012
... Childress’s 1950s play about race relations inside a theater rehearsal room; “Lysistrata,” the classic by Aristophanes about women withholding sex from their husbands in an effort to stop war; and “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!,” a farce by Noble Prize winner Dario Fo about working-class housewives in an uproar over the rising cost of groceries....(size: 8.5Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
18 Nov 2012
"I was absolutely sure that I was going to be fired," Carey Perloff says of her tumultuous first year as artistic director of the American Conservatory Theater. She had good reason to worry. Outraged Catholic Church members had picketed and leafleted playwright Dario Fo's satire "The Pope and the Witch." ... ACT was already in trouble by the time Perloff took over in 1992 ... I sat by the window and looked at the bay ... You've done the hard part....(size: 12.0Kb)
The Hindu
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Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame’s Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo was staged for the first time in India about 20 years ago, directed by Arundhati Raja ... Dario Fo uses devices such as comedia dell’arte and creates “fantastical situations out of original sources” ... “For instance in Woman Alone, Dario Fo shows how a ......(size: 1.8Kb)
The Hindu
09 Nov 2012
Sex sells. And Ishwar Shunya is turning the market on its head. He’s delivered two hits in a row in less than a month, staging Valentin Krasnogorov’s Let’s Have Sex followed by Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Orgasm. Titillated by the titles, mainstream dailies went to town on them even before they released. But back in August, actors turned him down, the audience ignored him and the press was absent ... Keywords....(size: 4.1Kb)
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 Dario Fo in Milan |
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| Born | (1926-03-24) 24 March 1926 (age 86) Sangiano, Varese, Italy |
| Occupation | Playwright, Actor, Director, Composer |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | Post-war era |
| Genres | Drama |
| Subjects | Corruption, organised crime, political murders, religion, war |
| Literary movement | Revival of commedia dell'arte |
| Notable work(s) | Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, Trumpets and Raspberries, Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, The Pope and the Witch |
| Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 |
| Spouse(s) | Franca Rame |
| Children | Jacopo Fo |
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Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes.
Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime, political corruption, political murders, most of the Catholic Church doctrine and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, commedia dell'arte style. His plays, especially Mistero Buffo, have been translated into 30 languages and, when performed outside Italy, they are often modified to reflect local political and other issues. Fo encourages directors and translators to modify his plays as they see fit, as he finds this in accordance to the commedia dell'arte tradition of on-stage improvisation.
Fo currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress Franca Rame. Upon awarding him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, the committee highlighted Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".[1]
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Fo was born in Sangiano, in the province of Varese, near the eastern shore of Lago Maggiore. His father, Felice, was a stationmaster for the Italian state railway, and the family frequently moved when Felice was transferred to new postings. Felice was also an amateur actor and a socialist. Fo learned storytelling from his maternal grandfather and Lombard fishers and glassblowers.
In 1940, Fo moved to Milan to study architecture at the Brera Academy, but World War II intervened. His family was active in the anti-fascist Resistance and reputedly he helped his father to smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to Switzerland. His father helped smuggle Jewish scientists to safety in Switzerland. [2] Near the end of the war, Fo was conscripted into the army of the Republic of Salò, but he escaped and hid for the remainder of the war in an attic. [2]
After the war Fo continued his architectural studies in Milan. Initially he commuted from Lago Maggiore, but soon his family moved to Milan. There Fo became involved in the piccoli teatri (small theatres) movement, in which he began to present improvised monologues. In 1950 he began to work for Franco Parenti's theatre company, and gradually abandoned his work as an assistant architect.
1950s[link]
In 1951, Fo met Franca Rame, daughter of a theatrical family, when they were working in the revue Sette giorni a Milano, and they eventually became engaged. In 1951 he was invited to perform a radio play Cocorico on RAI (Italian national radio). He made 18 satirical monologues where he adapted biblical tales as political satire. Scandalized authorities cancelled the show. In 1953, Fo wrote and directed a satirical play Il dito nell'occhio. After initial success both government and Church authorities censored his work and the theatre company had trouble finding theatres in which to perform it. Rame and Fo were married on 24 June 1954. They had a son, Jacopo (born 31 March 1955), who also became a writer.
In 1955, Fo and Rame worked in movie production in Rome. Fo became a screenwriter and worked for many productions, including those of Dino De Laurentiis. Rame worked in Teatro Stabile of Bolzano. In 1956 Fo and Rame were together in the Carlo Lizzani's film Lo svitato. Other movies followed. In 1959, the couple returned to Milan and founded the Compagnia Dario Fo-Franca Rame. Fo wrote scripts, acted, directed, and designed costumes and stage paraphernalia. Rame took care of the administration. The company débuted in Piccolo Teatro and then initiated its first annual nationwide tour.[citation needed]
1960s[link]
In 1960, Fo and Rame gained national recognition with Gli arcangeli non giocano a flipper (Archangels Don't Play Pinball) in Milan's Teatro Odeon. Other successes followed. In 1961 Fo's plays began to play in Sweden and Poland.
In 1962, Fo wrote and directed a game show, Canzonissima, for RAI. He used the show to depict the lives of ordinary people and it was a great success. However, an episode about a journalist who was killed by the Mafia led to Fo and Rame receiving death threats and being placed under police protection. They left the show when RAI made more cuts to the program. The Italian Actors' Union told its members not to replace the couple in their roles. Fo and Rame were effectively banned from RAI for the next 15 years. They continued their work in Teatro Odeon.[citation needed]
In 1962, Fo's play about Christopher Columbus, entitled Isabella, Three Tall Ships, and a Con Man, was subject to violent attacks by fascist groups in Rome. The Italian Communist Party provided security for Fo and Rame. Fo recounted this event in the prologue of Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas. La Signora è da buttare (1967) made topical comments on the Vietnam War, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The U.S. government consistently denied Fo a visa to enter the U.S. for many years under the now defunct McCarran-Walter Act.[citation needed]
Nonetheless, he gained international fame with Archangels Don't Play Pinball, when it was performed in Zagreb. In 1968, Fo and Rame founded Associazione Nuova Scena theatre collective with movable stages, which toured throughout Italy. In Milan, an abandoned factory was converted into a theatre and became the home of another new stage company, Il Capannone di Via Colletta. The collective had links to the Italian Communist Party, but Fo openly criticised the Party's methods and policies in his plays. Soon the Party's press opposed him as much as the Catholic Church, and many performances were cancelled. Fo had never been a Communist Party member but the conflict made Rame resign her Party membership.[citation needed]
Fo withdrew all rights to perform his plays in Czechoslovakia in protest after Warsaw Pact forces crushed the Prague Spring in 1968, and refused to accept cuts demanded by Soviet censors. Productions of his plays in the Eastern Bloc ended. In 1969, he presented for the first time Mistero Buffo ("Comic Mystery"), a play of monologues based on a mix of medieval plays and topical issues. It was popular, and ran for 5000 performances, some even in sports arenas.[citation needed]
1970s[link]
In 1970, Fo and Rame left Associazione Nuova Scena due to political differences. They began their third theatre group, Collettivo Teatrale La Comune. It produced plays based on improvisation about contemporary issues. Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) criticized abuse of forces of law and order; he wrote it after a terrorist attack on the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan. Fedayin (1971) was about a volatile situation in Palestine and performers included genuine PLO members. From 1971-85, the group donated part of its income to support strikes of Italian labor organizations. In 1973 the company moved to Rossini Cinema in Milan.
When Fo criticised police in one of his plays, police raids and censorship increased. On 8 March, a fascist group, reportedly commissioned by high ranking officials in Milan's Carabinieri, the Italian federal police, kidnapped Franca Rame, torturing and raping her.[3] Rame returned to the stage two months later with new anti-fascist monologues.
Later in that year, the company occupied an abandoned market building in Central Milan and dubbed it the Palazzina Liberty. They opened in September with Guerra di popolo in Cile, about a rebellion against Chilean military government. It was written because of the deposing and assassination of Salvador Allende. Fo was arrested when he tried to prevent police from stopping the play. The 1974 play, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, was a farce about the self-reduction movement where women (and men) would take what they wanted from markets, only paying what they could afford. In 1975, Fo wrote Fanfani rapito in support of a referendum for the legalization of abortion. Fo was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the first time.
In 1976, the new director of RAI2, Massimo Fichera, invited Fo to create a new programme, Il teatro di Dario (Dario's Theatre). However, when the second edition of Mistero Buffo' was shown on Italian television in 1977, the Vatican described it as "blasphemous", prompting complaints from Italian right-wingers. Rame, however, was awarded an IDI prize for Best Television Actress. In 1978, Fo made the third version of Mistero Buffo. He also rewrote and directed La storia di un soldato (Story of a Soldier), based on an opera by Igor Stravinsky. It was a success. Later he adapted operas from Gioacchino Rossini. He also wrote a play about the murder of Aldo Moro, but it has never been performed in public.[citation needed]
1980s[link]
In 1980, Fo and his family founded a retreat, the Libera Università di Alcatraz, in the hills near Gubbio and Perugia. They bought the valley bit by bit. The retreat is currently run by Fo and Rame's son, Jacopo Fo.
In 1981, Cambridge's American Repertory Theater invited Fo to perform in the Italian Theatre Festival in New York. The United States Department of State initially refused to grant Fo a visa but agreed to issue a six-day visa in 1984 after various U.S. writers protested the ruling. In 1985, he received another visa and performed at Harvard University, Repertory Theater, the Yale Repertory Theater, Washington's Kennedy Center, Baltimore's Theatre of Nations and New York's Joyce Theatre.
Despite the acclaim, Fo continued to experience problems. In 1983, Italian censors rated Coppia Aperta forbidden to anyone under the age of 18. During a performance in Argentina, a saboteur threw a tear gas grenade, and performances were disturbed by youths who threw stones at the windows. Catholics picketed the performance with large religious pictures.[citation needed]
In 1989 Fo wrote Lettera dalla Cina to protest the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Since 1990[link]
On 17 July 1995, Fo suffered a stroke and lost most of his sight; Rame subsequently took his place in productions for awhile. He recovered almost fully within a year.
In 2006, Fo made an attempt to run for mayor of Milan, the most economically important city of Italy, finishing second in the primary election held by the centre-left The Union. Fo, who received more than 20% of the vote, was supported by the Communist Refoundation Party.
Franca Rame was elected as senator for the Italy of Values party in the 2006 Italian general election held from 9-10 April 2006. As of 2010, Fo and Rame are independent members of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC – Partito della Rifondazione Comunista).[4]
Fo remains an active participant and campaigner on various political, social and cultural issues.[5] Fo questioned the official accounts of the September 11 attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings in the film. [6]
Awards and honours[link]
- 1981 Sonning Prize from Copenhagen University
- 1985 Premio Eduardo Award
- 1986 Obie Award in New York
- 1987 Agro Dolce Prize
- Honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (in Belgium)
- 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature
List of works[link]
- Translated titles
- Archangels Don't Play Pinball (1959)
- He Had Two Pistols with White and Black Eyes (1960)
- He Who Steals a Foot is Lucky in Love (1961)
- Isabella, Three Tall Ships, and a Con Man (1963)
- Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery, 1969)
- The Worker Knows 300 Words, the Boss 1000, That's Why He's the Boss (1969)
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970)
- Fedayin (1971)
- We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!) (aka Can't Pay? Won't Pay!) (1974)
- Mama's Marijuana is the Best (1976)
- All House, Bed, and Church (1977)
- The Tale of a Tiger (1978)
- Trumpets and Raspberries (1981)
- The Open Couple (1983)
- Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman (1984)
- One was Nude and One wore Tails (1985)
- Abducting Diana (1986) – Adapted to English in 1996 by Stephen Stenning
- The Tricks of the Trade (Manuale minimo dell'attore) [1987] (1991)[7]
- The Zeedonk and the Shoe (1988)
- The Pope and the Witch (1989)
- A Woman Alone (1991)
- Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (1992)
- The Devil with Boobs (1997)
- The First Miracle of the Infant Jesus
- Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo
- About Face
- The Virtuous Burglar
- Francis The Holy Jester (2009)
- English translations
A number of Fo's plays have been translated into the English language, including Abducting Diana and St Francis – The Holy Jester (Beautiful Books Limited, UK, 2009)
References[link]
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997". Nobelprize. 7 October 2010. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1997. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ a b Alex Duval Smith (2005-10-14). "A Nobel Calling: 100 Years of Controversy". The Independent (news.independent.co.uk). "1997: As a young man, the author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist was conscripted into Mussolini's army towards the end of the war, but escaped and hid in an attic ... His father played a key role in the Resistance during the Second World War, smuggling Jewish scientists into Switzerland."
- ^ Review article on biography of Rame and Fo which mentions the rape
- ^ (Italian) Info on the official PRC website (Regional Federation of Lombardy)
- ^ "Fo is still the enemy of power and corruption", The Tribune, March 2011
- ^ Zero
- ^ Dario Fo The tricks of the trade, Routledge, 1991 ISBN 0-87830-008-2
Literature[link]
- Scuderi, Antonio: Dario Fo: Framing, Festival, and the Folkloric Imagination. Lanham (Md.): Lexington Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7391-5111-2.
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- Official website of Fo's candidacy as Mayor of Milan (Italian)
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| Date of birth | 24 March 1926 |
| Place of birth | Sangiano, Varese, Italy |
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Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes.
Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime, political corruption, political murders, most of the Catholic Church doctrine and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, commedia dell'arte style. His plays, especially Mistero Buffo, have been translated into 30 languages and, when performed outside Italy, they are often modified to reflect local political and other issues. Fo encourages directors and translators to modify his plays as they see fit, as he finds this in accordance to the commedia dell'arte tradition of on-stage improvisation.
Fo currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress Franca Rame. Upon awarding him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, the committee highlighted Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".
