Luigi Lunari (January 3, 1934 – August 15, 2019) was an

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, translator, essayist and screenwriter.

Biography

In 1939, in order to avoid the indoctrination of the fascist school, he was enrolled by his father in the Deutsche Schule in Milan, managed by the "Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady", far from any Nazi ideology. From 1942 to 1946 he lived the period of displacement in his father's birthplace (

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). In 1946, he returned to Milan to attend middle school and gymnasium at the Gonzaga dei Salesiani Institute, and classical high school at the Carducci high school , where he had as a classmate

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. Enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the

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, he graduated in 1956. He also attended the Arrigo Boito Conservatory of Parma.

References

1934 births 2019 deaths Italian dramatists and playwrights Parma Conservatory alumni {{Italy-writer-stub