Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Dario Fo (1926-2016) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, set designer, and political activist. 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Franca Rame (1929-2013) was an Italian theatre actor, playwright, activist, and politician.

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Emanuele Sciascian

(Constantinople, Ottoman Empire 1775 -1858) Armenian physician Son of Boghos, a famous Armenian doctor, Sciascian studied in Venice with the Mekhitarists, a congregation of Benedictine monks. He then enrolled in …

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Nicolò Tomeo Leonico

(Venice, Italy 1456 – Padua, Italy 1531) Philosopher A family originally from Epirus, it is understood that he studied Greek with Demetrio Calcondila in Padua. In 1485, he obtained a …

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