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Accidental death of an anarchist characters
Daniella Carrillo, Maria Chiriboga, Nicole Pachano, Tomás Vintimilla.
Accidental death of an anarchist
Book
SUMMARY
After the death of an anarchist that fell from the window in the police head quarters , a maniac arrives to the police station after being arrested for impersonating a psychiatrist the main officer, Bertozzo discovers he has a history of impersonating several professions . The maniac plays around with the police until Bertozzo let him leave uncharged , for the maniac to return and impersonate a new profession a judge . As his new identity he tricks the police officers into revealing the truth about the death of the anarchist, to later reveal his true identity as an extremist ,leaving a reporter
Maria Felletti with two choices.
Question
How does the authors background affect the characters and the overall play?
Main characters in the book
Characters
Bertozzo
The Maniac
The Anarchist
Pissani
The Superintendent
Felletti
The people behind the characters:
The people behind the characters:
Bertozzo: the carabinieri
The Maniac: originally played by Dario Fo
The Anarchist: Giuseppi Pinelli
Pissani- Commissario Luigi Calabresi
The Superintendent: Marcello Guida, the head of police in Milan
Feletti: Camilla Cederna
The Maniac
His career as a theatral man started when he participated in the resistance with nazis, during world war two.
Dario Fo
The Maniac
Born in March 24, 1926 in San Giano, Varese. His father was also into the theatre business too. His career as a theatral man started when he participated in the resistance with nazis, during world war two.Dario Fo was an italian actor, who got a Nobel Prize in literature in 1997. He is believed to be the most complete person in italian theaters. Dario Fo is known for being a comedian and is known for touching subjects such as vanguards humor and politician satire. During the years 50 he developed a new sarcastic and cynical way to present a play on stage. During this years is where he really He was a person that had a left perspective which banned him from television during many years.
He has made a lot of known plays such as; Accidental Death of an Anarchist or The Awakening.
He studies painting and architecture in the “Academia de Bellas Artes de Milán.
Dario Fo
He got married also with an actress, whose name is Franca Rame. She plays a role in his life because it was with her that they created a company (Teatral Dario Fo-Franca Rame).
His role in the play “An Accidental Death of an Anarchist” is very important, not only because he wrote the play but also because he plays the main character. Dario Fo was also a performer, he enjoyed the whole process of theater, writing and performing. He expressed his ideas through this play because he wrote his plays based on personal opinions but with his personality which was comedy.
BERTOZZO
The carabinieri started in 1814 with king Vittotio Emanuele I of Savoy as a police force for North Italy.
"A member of the Italian paramilitary police."(Oxford dictionary)
The carabinieri
Comes from carabina a riffle .
Bertozzo
The carabinieri has been subject to several jokes and stereotypes remarking their incompetence.
They work as national police force .
Subject to many jokes and pranks however they are some of the countries most competent and trusted institutions.
They can be dispatched as military on peace keeping missions
Why the reputation
“substandard job qualifications attracted many eager, but under-educated candidates from the impoverished Italian south”.
The new exam is harder
Are mostly from the south.
-Sense of retaliation.
They are 2 police forces in Italy
Carabinieri-army
Polizia-state police
They are known for excessive violence.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
When we meet Bertozzo he is interrogating the maniac, however despite the situation the Maniac is still able to manipulate him and mock him with the use of punctuation.Bertozzo is the presented as dumb, inefficient, submissive and even at times aggressive all stereotypes that represent the carabinieri police due to the inexperience and ignorance of the police officers at a certain period of time. Bertozzo towards the end of the book symbolizes this stereotypes even further and emphasizes police corruption and lack of moral .
In the play
Joke
Jokes
"Marshal, do you know a guy with one arm who is called Joseph?"
- "Hum... I do not know... and what's the name of the other arm?".
Giuseppe Pinelli
During the 1970’s it was a dangerous time to be politically active in Italy.
The Anarchist
Neo Fascists paramilitaries were mounting a prolonged bombing campaign that killed many, especially using bombs
After one of those bombings, Giuseppe Pinelli, a local railroad worker and Anarchist activist was arrested in a dragnet. When he was in police custody he threw himself through the window of the fourth floor. The police maintained their position saying that the anarchist threw himself on his own account, however, the official story was full of loose ends and holes that an entire play was able to be written. Therefore the play “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” was written by Dario Fo.
New Investigation
New investigation
Recently in 2001, a new investigation found three members of a Neo Fascist group that were involved in the bombing in which Giuseppe Pinelli had been detained for in first place. He was “killed” by the police and Aldo he was innocent of the charges as well.
Pissani - Luigi Calabresi
Luigi Calabresi was born in 1937 in Rome. He belonged to a middle-class family, and his father was a wine and oil merchant. He graduated college with a law degree, and joined the police as an attorney. He was then sent to Milan, where he was assigned to investigate anarchist groups.
Pissani
Calabresi was assigned to the case of Giuseppe Pinelli, nevertheless, a tribunal in 1975 declared that Calabresi was not present in the room when Pinelli fell out the window.
Nevertheless, far-left group Lotta Continua accused him of being responsible for the death of the anarchist, and for two years he was the center of a media campaing. On May 17, 1972, he was shot to death on his way to work by Lotta Continua.
In the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo, Luigi Calabresi is represented as the character Pissani, who is one of the police men in charge of the case investigating the death of the anarchist, in this case, the death of Giuseppe Pinelli.
SUPERINTENDENT
Italian Policeman
Marcello Guida( Naples, Italy 1913 - 1990)
Marcello Guida ( Naples, Italy 1913 - 1990) was an Italian policeman. Was superintendent of Turin and Milan. The Superintendent is based on Marcello Guida, the police chief in Milan. Although he was not present at Pinelli's death, he participated in the cover-up, denied at the outset any record of the interrogation and then changed his story. He was also involved in the framing of Pietro Valpreda, another anarchist who was wrongly accused of placing bombs and imprisoned for three years. Guida had been a government official under Mussolini and ran a prison camp for anti-fascist activists during World War II. In this version of the play, references to the activities of its prison camp were changed to activities with mercenaries in Bosnia to add a familiar historical context for a contemporary British audience.
Like the inspector, the Superintendent believes that Maniac is a judge investigating what happened the night of the anarchist's death. He reacts defensively when he thinks the Maniac is against him, but he is happy to accept what the Maniac says if that will get him out of trouble. He and the inspector have somewhat interchangeable roles since both were guilty of questionable practices that contributed to the death of the anarchist.
The Superintendent
Was superintendent of Turin and Milan. The Superintendent is based on Marcello Guida, the police chief in Milan.
Although he was not present at Pinelli's death, he participated in the cover-up, denied at the outset any record of the interrogation and then changed his story. He was also involved in the framing of Pietro Valpreda, another anarchist who was wrongly accused of placing bombs and imprisoned for three years. Guida had been a government official under Mussolini and ran a prison camp for anti-fascist activists during World War II.
In this version of the play, references to the activities of its prison camp were changed to activities with mercenaries in Bosnia to add a familiar historical context for a contemporary British audience.
Like the inspector, the Superintendent believes that Maniac is a judge investigating what happened the night of the anarchist's death. He reacts defensively when he thinks the Maniac is against him, but he is happy to accept what the Maniac says if that will get him out of trouble. He and the inspector have somewhat interchangeable roles since both were guilty of questionable practices that contributed to the death of the anarchist.
In the story
Camilla Cederna
Felletti
Born in Milan, January 21, 1911. She was a journalist that didn’t care of expressing her opinions, even though they were seen as rebellious. Her way into fame was actually writing about a gossip in a news magazine, making her major gossip an exposing of information like her book Giovanni Leone, making her force resignation in writing. Giovanni Leone issue was that he was involved in the Lockheed Scandal. This was basically “payment of bribes to Italian politicians in connection with the purchase of Hercules military transport planes from the United States”. With this book she actually managed Giovanni Leone to resign too. Cederna and her publisher were sued and they payed a lot of money due to this book. She spend some time at prison due to her article “Fascist Fashion”, she like Dario Fo were against fascist and nazis. Later on, she became an investigative journalism. “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” was her first play that showed investigative journalism. Luigi Calabresi, Pissani in the play, was shot and she was escorted by police for several months. She later died in Milan the 9th of November 1997.
MLA Citations
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