He was an Italian philosopher, writer, playwright, actor, director, and poet, and today he would have turned exactly eighty-four springs, our beloved Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, who once said: My epitaph could be that passage from Sade: I stubbornly continue to live because "Even in death I remain the cause of some disorder"...



Let us remember him with these words taken from "Il principe cestinato," a medium-length film from 1972:
I can continue to live this life of mine...
because I have a gift that no one else has...
so exacerbated in me,
so excellent in me.
This gift is my great falsehood.