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 Barbosa the Jabuti Prize. Recently, his poems have been translated and published in anthologies in several countries, as the United States, Australia, Mexico, Spain and Colombia. In 2000, Frederico Barbosa published "Cinco Séculos de Poesia" - Anthology of Classic Brazilian Poetry, (Landy Editora) and "Contracorrente - poems", (Iluminuras). In 2001 Frederico Barbosa published an annotaded edition of the episodes "Inês de Castro and O Velho do Restelo", from The Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões (Landy Editora) and released his fourth book of poetry, "Louco no Oco sem Beiras - Anatomia da Depressão", by Ateliê Editorial. In 2002 Frederico Barbosa published, with