Overview

• Fofi died on June 25 at Rome’s Ospedale Cavalieri di Malta after surgery for a fractured femur.
• He began his career at 18 by joining Danilo Dolci’s nonviolent campaigns in Palermo for southern Italy’s poor.
• In the mid-1960s he co-founded the cultural review Quaderni piacentini and later led independent magazines including Gli Asini and Lo Straniero.
• His pioneering criticism played a decisive role in reevaluating overlooked artists such as the actor Totò.
• Fofi maintained an uncompromisingly independent stance, rejecting party allegiances to nurture emerging writers and champion collective cultural emancipation.