Francesco Leonetti (27 January 1924[1][2] – 17 December 2017) was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist.
There he met Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Roversi, and together they co-founded the magazine Officina.
[3][4] In the 1960s he co-founded with Elio Vittorini and Italo Calvino the literary magazine Il Menabò.
Leonetti collaborated with Pasolini again in 1964, playing the part of Herod Antipas in The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
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