March 9, 1911 · 115 years old
Rate Furlan (1911–1989) was an Italian actor, composer, screenwriter and film director.

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.

Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.