The noted cinema and literary critic Goffredo Fofi has died at the age of 88, his family said Friday.
    Umbria-born Fofi, who worked for various publishing houses including Einaudi and Feltrinelli, was considered an independent-minded public intellectual who did not cleave to liberal or conservative schools of thought but ploughed his own furrow.
    Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli said: "Through his work as a cultural promoter and organizer, Goffredo Fofi had a profound impact on contemporary Italian debate like few others, raising questions of great interest through an approach that fosters new meanings." The mayor of Fofi's beloved Naples, Gaetano Manfred, said Fofi had been a "lucid voice in our culture, radical and always going against the flow.
    "A friend of Naples and Neapolitans, he was decisive in restoring the deserved gretaness to Totò.

A rare guide, who we will hugely miss."
   

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