Francesco Leonetti

Francesco Leonetti was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist.

Education and career

Leonetti was born in Cosenza in Calabria. In 1955 he moved to Bologna to study philosophy. There he met Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Roversi, and together they co-founded the magazine Officina. He graduated in computer science at the University of Bari. He worked with a specialized school for the deaf, studying pedagogy and ways to use multimedia and interactive technologies to disabled students. His thesis was "Ipertesti, Multimedia e Interattività per la didattica agli audiolesi" . He developed a prototype learning environment on HyperCard in 1991.
In the 1960s he co-founded with Elio Vittorini and Italo Calvino the literary magazine Il Menabò. In 1963 he joined the Neoavanguardia avant-garde Italian literary movement.

Works

Leonetti collaborated with Pasolini again in 1964, playing the part of Herod Antipas in The Gospel According to St. Matthew. He also provided the voice of the sparrow in The Hawks and the Sparrows and played the part of the servant Laio in the 1967 film Oedipus Rex.
In the 1970s he co-edited with Nanni Balestrini the magazine Alfabeta. In 1974 he authored a monograph on Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. From 1975 to 1995 he taught Aesthetics at the Brera Academy in Milan.
He worked for 25 years in the field of e-learning.

Selected works

Sopra una perduta estate La cantica L’incompleto Irati e sereni Conoscenza per errore In uno scacco Campo di battaglia Palla di filo La vita e gli amici La voce del corvo. Una vita Scritti estremi di rabbia e di gioco. Narrazione, poesie, scene e prose

''Una come un'altra''