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IL GIULLARE RIBELLE. Vita apocrifa di Dario Fo

di Matthias Martelli

Editore Baldini+Castoldi

One hundred years after his birth, and ten years after his death, Dario Fo, the last Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, remains in the collective imagination a genius, an irrepressible artist, a free and often lucid figurehead in intellectual, social, and political debate. For those who live in the theater, however, he represents above all a master who—along with Franca Rame, his lifelong companion—carved an unparalleled creative path, generously giving of himself to the audience and to the many actors and authors who came after him.

Matthias Martelli was nine years old when he first saw an old recording of “Mistero Buffo” on TV: it was a revelation, and it was to Fo and that show that Martelli would return years later, when his lively stage career took off.

Driven by the same impetus, with the devotion of a student and the authority of an artist, Matthias Martelli writes a biography of Dario Fo in which his eclectic life—from his childhood among the storytellers of Lake Maggiore to his resounding international recognition—is brought to life in a vivid narrative, capturing the full artistic, civic, and human power of the “rebel jester.” It is a cultured, joyful, popular, and subversive theatrical tradition that is rekindled in these pages, allowing a voice to resonate that, today more than ever, we need to hear again.

Come discover the book “Il giullare ribelle. Vita apocrifa di Dario Fo” (Baldini and Castoldi, 2026) in the presence of the author at the Italian Cultural Institute.

• Tuesday 22 September 2026

• 6:00 PM

• 4/125 York Street Sydney CBD

• Free admission

• In Italian