Federico Fellini Leopardi. Fellini improvised as he filmed, using as a guide a rough treatment written with Pinelli. Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors. Fellini won the "Praemium Imperiale", the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts, awarded by the Japan Art Association in 1990. In July 1991 and April 1992, Fellini worked in close collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Damian Pettigrew to establish "the longest and most detailed conversations ever recorded on film". Described as the "Maestro's spiritual testament” by his biographer Tullio
Frederico Mariath in particular the state of Río Grande do Sul. This war was known as the "Ragamuffin War". In 1838 the Imperial government named Mariath as military commander in the province of Santa Catarina, with the mission to confront the rebels. (The revolution had extended to this province in the form of the República Catarinense.) On November 15, in command of a fleet of some 13 vessels carrying 33 guns and approximately 1000 men, Mariath defeated the republican forces under Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Barra de Laguna. Frederico Mariath Frederico Mariath was an admiral in the Imperial Brazilian Navy who participated