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Thu Jan 5

Dario Fo, Barry Unsworth, and one shambolic Italian summer

Written by: Richard Newsome, Director, postgraduate Writing, Editing and Publishing program, The University of Queensland

Dario Fo at the Venice Film Festival, 1985.Gorupdebesanez/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

The summer of 1985 is oppressive around the medieval Italian town of Gubbio. Thick heat is held captive in the wooded ravines and the windless slopes that climb and crawl across Umbria and on to the foothills of the Apennines. A short winding drive into the...

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