Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was born a hundred years ago in Sangiano, in the province of Varese, on 24 March 1926, and died ten years ago in Milan, on 13 October 2016.

One of the leading intellectual figures in the second half of the twentieth century and in the early 2000s, he was a playwright, but also an actor, director, comedian, writer, illustrator, painter, and set designer. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as a writer who “emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”. His satirical plays reflect the political commitment that marked his entire life, pursued alongside his wife Franca Rame.