Free Cuomo

Franco Cuomo was born with Naples on April 22nd, 1938. It is deceased with Rome, city where it lived, on July 23rd, 2007.

After its studies (license of right), it makes career in journalism and the literature. Large expert of the Middle Ages, it locates at it the historical novels and works which will make known it. He is twice finalist of very prestigious Prix Strega, in 1990 with Gunther d' Amalfi cavaliere templare and in 1997 with He Codice Macbeth .

Its last novel, Animates perdute. Notturno veneziano idiot messa will nera E fantasmi of amore is published in March 2007, just after the publication of I Sotterranei LED cielo and of It Tatuaggio . Its recent test I Dieci , on scientists Italian which in 1938 signed the Manifesto beyond razza (the proclamation of the race which is the prelude to the introduction of the racial laws into fascistic Italy), is currently a great success.

Among its works of fiction are reproduced I semidei , a contemporary history of espionage which clearly refers to the businesses known in Italy under the name of Tangentopoli , It signore degli specchi on the life of Nostradamus, Scroll on the legend according to which Shakespeare was not English. It also produced a saga in five volumes on the origins of Europe, It Romanzo di Carlo Magno and a biography of Rita da Cascia entitled Santa Rita degli impossibili where, beyond the traditional hagiography, it implies the medieval mystic in the mystery which surrounds the murder of her husband.

It also publishes many tests: on the idleness ( the ozio ), on the seduction ( Elogio LED libertino ), on Wilde Oscar and the decline victorienne ( Chi ha guardato negli occhi beyond bellezza ), on the tragedy of Beatrice Cenci and historical topics in extreme cases of imaginary like large the profezie (great prophecies, of mists of time to today) and on the Knighthood ( Gli ordini cavallereschi nel mito E nella storia ).

Free Cuomo was also devoted to the theater. Its many works were represented in Italy and abroad under the direction of directors like Carmelo Bene, Maurizio Scaparro, Sergio Fantoni and Francoise Petite. Among those we find: Faust O Margherita (with Carmelo Bucket), Romeo E Giulietta (with Carmelo Bucket and Roberto Lerici), Compagno Gramsci , It caso Matteotti , Caterina delle misericordie (Riccione Price), Nerone (Idi Price), Giovanna d' Arco E Gilles de Rais (Vallecorsi Price), Addio amore (Beatrice Cenci, Fondi Price), Una notte di Casanova (Flaiano Price) and recent the Gladiator . He is prize winner many other Contests: the Fregene Price for journalism (1984), the Price of the Presidency of the Council for the Culture (1989), Ravello (1990), Vanvitelli (1995), Blow In (1997).

He is the translator of Utopia of Thomas More but also that the many traditional ones like Cyrano of Bergerac , Caligula of Albert Camus (put in scene Maurizio Scaparro) or of works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Plaute and Musset.

He collaborates with the SPOKE (public network of radio television in Italy) under person in charge or consultant for the radio and television not only of cultural programs ( the occhio sul teatro and Magico E nero for Videosapere) but also of “popular” programs more ( Cararai , Cronache LED cinema E LED teatro , Obbiettivo Europa and Cineteatro ).

During its life he is also special correspondent and writer for daily newspapers and periodicals, critic and editor as a chief of cultural headings, deputy manager of the magazines Fiera and Achab , author of monographs for specialized magazines like Medioevo and Ulisse 2000 .

He is often the guest of radio operator programs and takes part in many emissions on the public and deprived television channels, like Stargate , Voyageur , Unomattina , Maurizio Costanzo show , secret Top and SpecialestoriaTG1 .

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