Bernardino Zapponi
Bernardino Zapponi | |
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Born | Rome, Italy | 4 September 1927
Died | 11 February 2000 Rome, Italy | (aged 72)
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
Nationality | Italian |
Bernardino Zapponi (4 September 1927 – 11 February 2000) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter best known for his films written in collaboration with Federico Fellini and Tinto Brass.
Biography
Zapponi was born in Rome in 1927. He began his literary career writing for Orlando and Marc'Aurelio, two well-established Italian satirical magazines, later branching out into radio and television.
An expert in literary innovation, Zapponi founded the cult magazine Il Delatore (The Spy), and published four novels including Gobal, a famous collection of short stories, as well as songs, plays and theatre sketches. Revered for his work with
Fellini, Poe and Toby Dammit
Zapponi first met Fellini in July 1967 during pre-production of the "
In addition to "Toby Dammit", Zapponi collaborated on Fellini: A Director's Notebook, Satyricon, I clowns, Roma, Fellini's Casanova, and City of Women, for a total of seven films with the Italian director.
Publications
Prose
- Gobal
- Trasformazioni
- Nostra Signora dello Spasimo: l'inquisizione e i sistemi inquisitori
- Passione
Theatre
- Italiani si nasce (1961)
- Se il tempo fosse un gambero (1987)
- La strada (1999) - a musical co-written with Tullio Pinelli and based on the film directed by Fellini
References
- ^ Bernardino Zapponi, Il Mio Fellini, Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 1995, p. 16.
- ^ Bernardino Zapponi, Il Mio Fellini, Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 1995, p. 17. In Fellini's version of Toby Dammit, the eponymous hero is decapitated by a steel wire strung across the collapsed bridge as he attempts to clear the gap in the Ferrari given to him by his film producers.