Diego Fabbri

Diego Fabbri July 2 1911 August 14 1980 was an Italian playwright whose plays centered on religious Catholic themes Fabbri graduated from the University of Bologna in 1936 with a degree in economics and business But his writing career had begun well before that His first play The Flowers of Pain was published in 1928 He followed it with The Node which was banned by the fascist government In 1938 he collaborated with Guido Chiesa to write the play Absent In 1939 Fabbri received an invitation to Rome to become director of the Publisher Avenue Then in 1940 he was appointed secretary of the Catholic Film Center He held the post until 1959 During this time Fabbri began work on The Literary Fair His codirector on this project was the poet Vincenzo Cardarelli The project could not be completed until 1966 and Vincenzo Cardarelli did not live to see it Fabbri was particularly prolific in 1940 In that year he wrote three plays Marshes Meadow and Fun The following year he came out with Orbits which was staged at the Teatro Quirino in Rome Marshes was staged in the same theater in 1942 One of Fabbris best known works is Inquisition which was written in 1946 His career as a screenwriter and scriptwriter began with collaborations with directors as Vittorio De Sica Alessandro Blasetti and Germs He also worked with other film makers such as Roberto Rossellini Federico Fellini Paw Michelangelo Antonioni René Clair Luis Buñuel and Fleischer In 1951 his The Seducer was represented Fabbri wrote the screenplay for films like the Family Process 1953 The Liar 1954 Trial of Jesus 1955 Vigil of Arms 1956 Delirium 1957 Sons of Art 1959 Process Karamazov 1960 The Squirrel 1961 At the Table Do Not Talk About Love 1962 The Confidant 1964 and The Event 1967 Fabbri was head of the Roman Theatre La Cometa from 1960 to 1962 In 1968 he became President of ETI Italian Theatre His term there was marked by a policy of expansion and inculcating a theater culture throughout the country Fabbri commitment to creating a national theater is reflected in the declaration of the manifesto for a theater of the people which he signed in 1943 along with other prominent literati such as Pandolfi and Pinelli Fabbri was one of the founders of the National Union of Drama Writers in 1945 Fabbri was born in Forlì where a theatre is named after him His best known plays are Inquisizione Inquisition and Processo a Gesú The Trial of Jesus He died in Riccione Source Article Diego Fabbri from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA