Trivia

He worked for 25 years in the field of e-learning.

Leonetti graduated in computer science at the University of Bari. In 1991 he developed a prototype learning environment on HyperCard.

In 1955 he moved to Bologna to study philosophy. There he met Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Roversi, and together they co-founded the magazine Officina.

In the 1960s he co-founded with Elio Vittorini and Italo Calvino the literary magazine Il Menabò.

From 1975 to 1995 he taught Aesthetics at the Brera Academy in Milan.

He worked with a specialized school for the deaf, studying pedagogy and ways to use multimedia and interactive technologies to disabled students. His thesis was "Ipertesti, Multimedia e Interattività per la didattica agli audiolesi" (Hypertexts, Multimedia, and Interactivity for Teaching the Hearing Impaired).

Leonetti collaborated with Pasolini again in 1964, playing the part of Herod Antipas in The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

Francesco Leonetti was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher, actor and political activist.

In 1963 he joined the Neoavanguardia avant-garde Italian literary movement.

In 1974 he authored a monograph on Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.