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Article: Homage to Pasolini on the twentieth anniversary of his murder.(famed Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini; includes one of his poems)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna on March 5,1922, and raised in the Friuli region of Venetia, is, in the words of Alberto Moravia, the major Italian poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He was also a filmmaker, novelist, and political journalist of genius. He was murdered twenty years ago, on November 2, 1975.
A teacher and active Communist in the Friuli, Pasolini was accused of "obscene acts" with teenage boys and "corruption of minors" in the summer of 1949. In 1952 an appellate court finally determined that he had violated no Italian law, but by that time his prior existence was shattered. He had moved to Rome in 1950 and, having no work for two ...