Playwright dies
Eduardo de Filippo, considered to be one of Italy’s leading twentieth century playwrights after Luigi Pirandello, has died in a Rome private clinic. He was 84. De .Filippo was born in Naples. He followed his family’s theatrical tradition, first as an actor, then increasingly as the author of humorous, bit-ter-sweet plays about Italian ■family life, which sometimes focused on the country’s experiences of Fascism and world War H. Many of his post-war works, including “My Family,” “The Voices Within,” and, "Saturday, Sunday, Monday” have been translated from the Italian and performed abroad. In 1981 President Sandro Pertini appointed him as a life member of the Italian Senate, where he campaigned for better conditions in Naples, in particular for orphans and abandoned children. Rome.
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