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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Chris Owen to Bernadette Peters
Pier Paolo Pasolini Biography (1922-)
Born March 5, 1922, in Bologna, Italy; murdered November 2, 1975, in Ostia, Italy; buried in Casarsa, Italy; son of Carlo Alberto (an army officer) and Susanna (Colussi) Pasolini. Politics: Marxism. Career: Poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, composer, director, and actor. Founder of the Academiuta di Lenga Furlana (Academy of Friulan Language), Casarsa, Italy, 1944; secretary of a Communist Party cell in Casarsa, Italy, beginning in 1947;teacher in Ciampino, Italy, beginning in 1950; columnist for Il Tempo;cofounder and editor of Officina, Bologna, Italy. Military service: Italian Army, 1943. Awards, Honors: Premio Le Quattro Arti, 1952, for the essay "Un poeta e dio"; Best Screenplay Award (with Massimo Franciosa and Pasquale Festa Campanile), Cannes International Film Festival, 1957, for Giovanni mariti; Special Jury Prize and another award, Venice International Film Festival, 1964, United Nations Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1968, Grand Prize, International Catholic FilmOffice, and two other awards from the Roman Catholic Church, all for Il vangelo secondo Matteo; Silver Berlin Bear, special jury prize, Berlin International Film Festival, 1970, for Il decameron; Golden Berlin Bear,Berlin International Film Festival, 1971, for I racconti di Canterbury; Grand Jury Prize, Cannes International Film Festival, 1974, for Il fioredelle mille e una notte; Karlovy Vary Festival Award, for Accattone; International Catholic Film Office Award, for Teorema(later revoked); Viareggio Prize, for Le ceneri di Gramsci; award for directing Edipo re. The Associazione Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Fondo Pasolini were founded in Pasolini's honor.
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, composer, director, actor
- Birth Details
- March 5, 1922
- Bologna, Italy
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Film Appearances
- Er Monco, Il gobbo(also known as The Hunchback of Rome andLe bossu de Rome), Royal, 1960
- Commentator, Comizi d'amore(also known as Assembly of Love and Love Meetings), Arco Films, 1964
- Commentator, Sopraluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo(documentary), [Italy], 1964
- High priest, Edipo re(also known as Oedipus Rex), Euro International Films, 1967
- Don Juan, Requiescant(also known as Kill and Pray,
Killand Say Your Prayers,
Let Them Rest, and Moegen sie in Friedenruhen), [Italy and West Germany (now Germany)], 1968
- Narrator, Le Mura di Sana'a,1970
- Giotto, Il decameron(also known as The Decameron), Produzione Europee Associate/United Artists, 1970
- Geoffrey Chaucer, I racconti di Canterbury(also known as The Canterbury Tales), United Artists, 1971
- Appearance in archival footage, A futura memoria di Pier Paolo Pasolini(documentary), [Italy], 1987
- Appearance in archival footage, The Ashes of Pasolini,1993
- Appearance in archival footage, Pier Paolo Pasolini(documentary),1995
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Film Work
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Director, Unless Otherwise Noted
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Accattone, Cino del Duca/Arco Films, 1961 released in the United States, 1968
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Mamma Roma, Arco Films/Cineriz, 1962
- "La ricotta," Laviamoci il cervello(also known as Let's Have a Brainwash and RoGoPaG), Arco Films/Cineriz/Lyre, 1962
- (And editor) First segment, La rabbia(also known as The Anger; documentary), Opus Films, 1963
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Il vangelo secondo Matteo(also known as L'evangile selon saint Matthieu), Arco Films/Lux Films, 1964 released in the United States as The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Continental Distributing, 1964
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Comizi d'amore(also known as Assembly of Love and Love Meetings), Arco Films, 1964
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Sopraluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo(documentary), [Italy], 1964
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Il padre selvaggio(short film), [Italy], 1965
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Uccallacci e uccellini(also known as The Hawks and the Sparrows), Arco Films, 1966
- "La terra vista dalla luna" (also known as "The Earth Seen from the Moon"), Le streghe(also known as Les sorcieres), Lopert/Arco Films,1966 released in the United States as The Witches, Lopert, 1969
- (And music coordinator) Edipo re(also known as Oedipus Rex), Euro International Films, 1967
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Teorema(based on his novel; also known as Theorem), Aetos Films, 1968
- "Che cosa sono le nuvole?," Capriccio all'italiana(also knownas Caprice Italian Style), Dino de Laurentiis, 1968
- "La sequenza del fiore di campo," Amore e rabbia(also known as Love and Anger,
Evangile 70,
La contestation, and Vangelo), Castoro Films/Anouchka Films, 1969
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Appunti per un film indiano,1969
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Porcile(also known as Pigpen and Pigsty), Film dell'Orso, 1969
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Medea, New Line Cinema, 1970
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Le Mura di Sana'a,1970
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Il decameron(also known as The Decameron), Produzione Europee Associate/United Artists, 1970
- (And photographer) Appunti per un'orestiade Africana(also known as Notes for an African Orestes), [Italy], 1970
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Appunti per un romanzo dell'immondeza,[Italy], 1970
- (And musical assistant) I racconti di Canterbury(also known as The Canterbury Tales), United Artists, 1971
- (Uncredited; with others) Dodici dicembre 1972,[Italy], 1972
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Il fiore delle mille e una notte(also known as Arabian Nights,
Flower of the Arabian Nights, and A Thousand and One Nights), United Artists, 1974
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Salo o le centiventi giornate di Sodoma(also known as Salo, orthe 120 Days of Sodom and Salo ou les 120 journees de Sodome), United Artists Europa, 1975
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Television Appearances
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Specials
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Pier Paolo Pasolini,[West Germany (now Germany)], 1969
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WRITINGS
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Screenplays, Unless Otherwise Noted
- (With Mario Soldati and others) La donna del fiume(also known as The River Girl and Woman of the River; based on an idea by EnnioFlaiano and Alberto Moravia), Columbia, 1955
- (With Luis Trenker) Il prigioniero della montagna,[Italy], 1955
- (With others) Marisa la civetta(also known as Marisa and Marisa, la coqueta), Carlo Ponti Cinematografica/Balcazar Producciones Cinematograficas, 1957
- (With Massimo Franciosa and Pasquale Festa Campanile) Giovanni mariti(also known as Young Husbands and Jeunes maries), Nepi Film/Silver Films, 1957
- (With Federico Fellini) Le notti di Cabiria(also known as Cabiria and Nights of Cabiria), Lopert, 1957
- (Author of story) Morte di un amico(also known as Death of a Friend), [Italy], 1959
- (With Mauro Bolognini) La notte brava(also known as Bad Girls Don't Cry,
Night Heat,
On Any Street, and Les garcons; based on his novel Ragazzi di vita), Ajace/Franco London, 1959 released in the United States by Miller/Medallion, 1962
- (With others) La lunga notte del '43(also known as The LongNight of '43), Mercurio Films, 1960
- (Author of story and commentary) La canta delle marane,1960
- (With Gianni Puccini) Il carro armato dell'8 settembre,[Italy], 1960
- (With others; and author of story) La giornata balorda(also knownas A Crazy Day,
Love Is a Day's Work,
Pickup in Rome,
A Strange Day, and Ca s'est passe a Rome), Transcontinental/Euro International, 1960 released in the United States as From a RomanBalcony, Continental Distributing, 1961
- (With Mauro Bolognini and Gino Vissentini) Il bell'Antonio(also known as Handsome Antonio and Le bel Antonio; based on a novel by Vitaliano Brancati), Embassy, 1960 released in the United States, 1962
- (With Luciano Emmer) La ragazza in vetrina(also known as Girl in the Window and La fille dans la vitrine), Discifilm, 1961
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Accattone(based on his novel Una vita violenta), Cino del Duca/Arco Films, 1961 released in the United States, 1968 published by Edizioni FM (Rome, Italy), 1961
- (Author of story) Una vita violenta(based on his novel), Zebra Film, 1962
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Mamma Roma, Arco Films/Cineriz, 1962 published by Rizzoli (Milan,Italy), 1962
- "La ricotta," Laviamoci il cervello(also known as Let's Have a Brainwash and RoGoPaG), Arco Films/Cineriz/Lyre, 1962
- (And author of story) La commare secca(also known as The Grim Reaper), Zibetti, 1962
- First segment, La rabbia(also known as The Anger; documentary), Opus Films, 1963
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Il vangelo secondo Matteo(also known as L'evangile selon saint Matthieu), Arco Films/Lux Films, 1964 released in the United States as The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Continental Distributing, 1964edited by Giacomo Gambetti and published by Garzanti (Milan, Italy), 1964
- (Author of commentary) Comizi d'amore(also known as Assembly of Love and Love Meetings), Arco Films, 1964
- (Author of commentary) Sopraluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondoMatteo(documentary), [Italy], 1964
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Il padre selvaggio(short film), [Italy], 1965 published by Einaudi(Turin, Italy), 1975
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Uccallacci e uccellini(also known as The Hawks and the Sparrows), Arco Films, 1966 published by Garzanti, 1966
- "La terra vista dalla luna" (also known as "The Earth Seen from the Moon"), Le streghe(also known as The Witches and Les sorcieres), Lopert/Arco Films, 1966 released in the United States by Lopert, 1969
- (And composer) Edipo re(based on the tragedy by Sophocles; also known as Oedipus Rex), Euro International Films, 1967 edited by GiacomoGambetti and published as Edipo re: Un film, Garzanti, 1967 translation by John Mathews published as Oedipus Rex: A Film, Lorrimer (London,England), 1971
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Teorema(based on his novel; also known as Theorem), Aetos Films, 1968
- "Che cosa sono le nuvole?," Capriccio all'italiana(also knownas Caprice Italian Style), Dino de Laurentiis, 1968
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Appunti per un film indiano,1969
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Porcile(also known as Pigpen and Pigsty), Film dell'Orso, 1969 published in Porcile; Orgia; Bestia da stile, Garzanti,1979
- (With others) Ostia,[Italy], 1969 published by Garzanti, 1970
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Medea(based on the tragedy by Euripides), New Line Cinema, 1970 published as Medea: Un film, Garzanti, 1970
- (And author of commentary) Appunti per un'orestiade Africana(also known as Notes for an African Orestes), [Italy], 1970
- (Author of commentary) Le Mura di Sana'a,1970
- (And composer) Il decameron(based on the book by Giovanni Boccaccio; also known as The Decameron), Produzione Europee Associate/United Artists, 1970 published by Cappelli (Bologna, Italy), 1975
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I racconti di Canterbury(based on the book by Geoffrey Chaucer; also known as The Canterbury Tales), United Artists, 1971 published by Cappelli, 1975
- (With others) Storie scellerate,[Italy], 1973
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Il fiore delle mille e una notte(also known as Arabian Nights,
Flower of the Arabian Nights, and A Thousand and One Nights), United Artists, 1974 published by Cappelli, 1975
- (With others) Salo o le centiventi giornate di Sodome(also known as Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom and Salo ou les 120 journees de Sodome), United Artists Europa, 1975
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Trilogia della vita(contains the screenplays Il decameron,
I racconti di Canterbury, and Il fiore delle mille e una notte), edited by Giorgio Gattei, Cappelli, 1975
- (Lyricist) Castelporziano, Ostia dei poeti,1981
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Calderon(based on his play), 1983
- (Story idea) L'intesa, Arpa, 1995
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Plays
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Affabulazione; Pilade, Greek Theatre, Taormina, Italy, 1969 published by Garzanti, 1977
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Orgia,1969 published in Porcile; Orgia; Bestia da stile, Garzanti, 1979
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Calderon, Garzanti, 1973
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Novels
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Ragazzi di vita, Garzanti, 1955 translation by Emile Capouya published as The Ragazzi, Grove (New York City), 1968
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Una vita violenta, Garzanti, 1959 translation by William Weaver published as A Violent Life, Jonathan Cape (London, England), 1968
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Il sogno di una cosa, Garzanti, 1962 translation by Stuart Hood published as A Dream of Something, Quartet (London, England and New YorkCity), 1988
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Teorema, Garzanti, 1968 translation by Stuart Hood published as Theorem, Quartet, 1992
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Amado mio, preceduto da Atti impuri(novellas), Garzanti, 1982
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Poetry
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Poesie e Casarsa, Landi (Bologna, Italy), 1942
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Poesie, Primon(San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy), 1945 enlarged edition published by Garzanti, 1970
- (With Mario dell'Arco) Poesia dialettale del Novecento, Guanda(Parma, Italy), 1952
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Tal cour di un frut: Nel cuore di un fanciullo, Lingua Furlana (Tricesimo, Italy), 1953
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Le ceneri di Gramsci, Garzanti, 1957 translation by David Wallacepublished as The Ashes of Gramsci, Spectacular Diseases (Peterborough,England), 1982
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L'usignolo della Chiesa Cattolica(title means "The Nightingaleof the Catholic Church"), Longanesi (Milan, Italy), 1958
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Sonetto primaverile (1953), All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro (Milan, Italy), 1960
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La religione del mio tempo(title means "The Religion of My Time"),Garzanti, 1961
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Poesia in forma di rosa(title means "Poetry in the Shape of a Rose"), Garzanti, 1964
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Poesie dimenticate, Societa Filologica Friulana (Udine, Italy), 1965
- (With Laura Betti) Potentissimi signora, Longanesi, 1965
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Trasumanar e organizzar(title means "Transhumanize and Organize"),Garzanti, 1971
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La nuova gioventu: Poesie friulane 1941-1974, Einaudi, 1975
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Le poesie, Garzanti, 1975
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Poems(bilingual edition; includes "The Ashes of Gramsci"), translated by Norman MacAfee and Luciano Martinengo, Random House/Vintage (New YorkCity), 1982 published as Selected Poems, Calder (London, England), 1984
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Roman Poems(bilingual edition), translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1986
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Poetry, selected and translated by Antonio Mazza, afterword by Antonio Mazza, Exile Editions (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1992
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Other Writings
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I diarii(title means "The Diaries"), Academiuta di Lenga Furlana (Casarsa, Italy), 1945
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I pianti, Academiuta di Lenga Furlana, 1946
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Dov'e la mia patria, Academiuta di Lenga Furlana, 1949
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I parlanti,[Rome, Italy], 1951
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La meglio gioventu, Sansoni (Florence, Italy), 1954
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Il canto popolare, Meridiana (Milan, Italy), 1954
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Dal diario (1945-47)(title means "From the Diary"), Sciascia (Caltanissetta, Italy), 1954
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Passione e ideologia (1948-1958)(title means "Passion and Ideology"; literary criticism; includes the essay "Un poeta e dio"), Garzanti, 1960
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Roma 1950: Diario, All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1960
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L'odore dell'India, Longanesi (Milan, Italy), 1962 translation by David Price published as The Scent of India, Olive (London, England), 1984
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Il cinema dispoesia,1965
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Ali dagli occhi azzurri(scenarios and short stories), Garzanti, 1965 translation of selections by John Shepley published as Roman Nights andOther Stories, Marlboro (Marlboro, VT), 1986
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Empirismo eretico(essays), Garzanti, 1972 translation by Ben Lawton and Louise K. Barnett published as Heretical Empiricism, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN and Indianapolis, IN), 1988
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Scritti corsari(title means "Pirate Writings"), Garzanti, 1975
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La divina mimesis, Einaudi, 1975 translation by Thomas E. Petersonpublished as The Divine Mimesis, Double Dance (Berkeley, CA), 1980
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L'experience heretique: Lange et cinema,[Paris, France], 1976
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"Volgar" eloquio, edited by A. Piromalli and D. Scarfoglio, [Naples, Italy], 1976
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Warhol, Anselmino (Milan, Italy), 1976
- (With others) Pasolini in Friuli, 1943-1949, Arte grafiche friulane (Udine, Italy), 1976
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I Turcs tal Friul, edited by Luigi Ciceri, Forum Julii (Udine, Italy), 1976
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Lettere agli amici (1941-1945), edited by Luciano Serra, Guanda, 1976
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Lettere luterane(essays), Einaudi, 1976 translation by Stuart Hoodpublished as Lutheran Letters, Carcanet (Manchester, England)/Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1983
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Pier Paolo Pasolini e "Il Setaccio" (1942-1943), edited by Mario Ricci, Cappelli, 1977
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Le belle bandiere: Dialoghi, 1960-1965, edited by Gian Carlo Ferretti, Editori riuniti (Rome, Italy), 1977
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San Paolo, Einaudi, 1977
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I disegni, 1941-1975, edited by Giuseppe Zigaina, Edizioni di Vanni Scheiwiller (Milan, Italy), 1978
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Il caos, Editori riuniti, 1979
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Descrizioni di descrizioni(title means "Descriptions of Descriptions"), edited by Graziella Chiarossi, Einaudi, 1979
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Porcile; Orgia; Bestia da stile, Garzanti, 1979
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Poesie e pagine ritrovate, edited by Andrea Zanzotto and Nico Naldini, Lato Side (Rome, Italy), 1980
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Sette poesie e due lettere, Locusta (Vicenza, Italy), 1985
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Lettere, 1940-1954: Con una cronologia della vita e delle opere, edited by Nico Naldini, Einaudi, 1986
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Lettere, 1955-1975: Con una cronologia della vita e delle opere, edited by Nico Naldini, Einaudi, 1988
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Ciant da li ciampanis, Kaldewey (New York City), 1988
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Il portico della morte, edited by Cesare Sagre, Associazione FondoPier Paolo Pasolini (Rome, Italy), 1988
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The Letters of Pier Paolo Pasolini, edited by Nico Naldini, translation by Stuart Hood, Quartet, 1992
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Editor
- (With others) Canzoniere italiano: Antologia della poesia popolare, Guanda, 1955
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La poesia popolare italiana(literary criticism), Garzanti, 1960
- (With Attilio Bertolucci) Scritorri della realta dell'VIII al XIXsecolo, Garzanti, 1961
- (Compiler) Canzione italiano(anthology), two volumes, Garzanti, 1972
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Translator
- Aeschylus, Orestiade, Einaudi, 1960
- Titus Maccius Plautus, Il vantone di Plauto, Garzanti, 1963
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Interviews with Pasolini
- Oswald Stack, Pasolini on Pasolini, Thames & Hudson/British Film Institute (London, England), 1969
- Enrico Magretti, editor, Con Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bulzoni (Rome, Italy), 1977
- Ferdinando Camon, Il mestiere di poeta, Garzanti, 1982
- Jean Duflot, editor, Il sogno del centauro, Editori riuniti, 1983
- Contributor to books, including Donne di Roma, by Sam Waagenaar, Saggiatore (Milan, Italy), 1960; Attalo, by Gioacchino Colizzi, Lara (Rome, Italy), 1968; L'Arte del Romanino e il nostro tempo: Dibattito tenuto a Brescia il 7 settembre 1965 in occasione della mostra di Gerolamo Romanino, Grafo (Brescia, Italy), 1976; The New Italian Poetry, editedand translated by Lawrence R. Smith, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1981; The Hidden Italy, edited and translated by Herman W. Haller, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1986. Contributor to periodicals, including Cahiers du Cinema,
Cinema,
Film Comment,
Film Culture,
Film Quarterly,
Films and Filming,
IlTempo,
Nuovi Argomenti,
Officina,
Strumenti Critici,and Wide Angle.
Further Reference
Adaptations:
- The 1995 film Who Killed Pasolini? November, 1995,(also known as Pasolini: Un delitto italiano) was based on Pasolini's life and death.
OTHER SOURCES
Books:
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Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 63, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 128: Twentieth-CenturyItalian Poets, Second Series, Gale, 1993.
- Rohdie, Sam, The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Indiana University Press, 1996.
- Rumble, Patrick, Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life,[Toronto, Ontario, Canada], 1996.
- Schwartz, Barth David, Pasolini Requiem, Pantheon (New York City),1992.
- Siciliano, Enzo, Vita di Pasolini, Rizzoli, 1979, translation by John Shepley published as Pasolini, Random House (New York City), 1982.
Periodicals:
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Film Quarterly, summer, 1998, pp. 21-27.
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Monthly Review, pp. 34-37.
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