Disgusted, he looked at the young people in their enthusiasm, outbursts of anger, parties and tumults, their abstract speeches, their confused juggling with Mao, Marx and Che Guevara. They saw him as a symbol of reaction, a member of the mandarin caste. The emerging radical-left terrorism in Italy frightened him and made him fear the rise of a new fascism. Health issues and death Visconti smoked 120 cigarettes a day. He suffered a heavy stroke in 1972, but continued to smoke heavily. He died in Rome of another stroke at the age of sixty-nine on 17 March 1976. There is a museum dedicated to the director's work in Ischia where he had his summer residence La Colombaia. Work Filmography Feature films Other films , documentary, 1945 Appunti su un fatto di cronaca, short film, 1951 Siamo donne (We, the Women), 1953, episode Anna Magnani Boccaccio '70, 1962, based on the episode Il lavoro in Boccaccio's Decameron Le streghe (The Witches), 1967, episode La strega bruciata viva , TV movie, 1970 Opera References Notes Sources Ardoin, John, The Callas Legacy, London: Duckworth, 1977 Bacon, Henry, Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 Düttmann, Alexander García, Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood, translated by Robert Savage, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009 Glasenapp, Jörg (ed.): Luchino Visconti (= Film-Konzepte, vol. 48). Munich: edition text + kritik 2017. Iannello, Silvia, Le immagini e le parole dei Malavoglia Roma: Sovera, 2008 (in Italian) Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, Luchino Visconti. London: British Film Institute, 2003. Visconti bibliography, University of California Library, Berkeley. Retrieved 7 November 2011. Schifano, Laurence: Luchino Visconti (biography, in French), Paris 1987 (German translation: Luchino Visconti, Fürst des Films, Gernsbach 1988) Viscontiana: Luchino Visconti e il melodramma verdiano, Milan: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 2001. A catalog for an exhibition in Parma of artifacts relating to Visconti's productions of operas by Verdi, curated by Caterina d'Amico de Carvalho, in Italian. External links Biography, Filmography and More on Luchino Visconti British Film Institute: "Luchino Visconti": filmography Hutchison, Alexander, "Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice", Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 2, 1974. (In-Depth Analysis of Death in Venice). 1906 births 1976 deaths Bisexual men Bisexual artists Directors of Palme d'Or winners Directors of Golden Lion winners Giallo film directors Luchino 2 Italian nobility Italian film directors Italian communists Italian Marxists Italian Roman Catholics Italian opera directors Italian male screenwriters Bisexual screenwriters LGBT Roman Catholics LGBT theatre directors