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
João Frederico Ludovice the Mafra National Palace (1717–1731) for the Portuguese king João V, among many other monuments, including churches and the tower of the University of Coimbra. He later adopted Portuguese citizenship. He died in 1752. João Frederico Ludovice Johann Friedrich Ludwig (March 19, 1673 in Baden-Wurttemburg - January 18, 1752 in Lisbon), known in Portugal as João Frederico Ludovice, was a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, where he married and converted to Catholicism, changing his name to Ludovici. He worked in the altars of the Church of Saint Ignatius of