Casa Pasolini will be donated to Roma Capitale: it was purchased by a well-known film producer

Film producer Pietro Valsecchi has purchased at auction the Roman home of Pier Paolo Pasolini, located in the Rebibbia neighborhood at 3 Via Giovanni Tagliere, where the poet and man of letters lived in the early 1950s with his mother, and will donate it to Roma Capitale.

"This is a gesture of love toward the city and a great intellectual like Pasolini, precisely on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth," Roma Capitale commented. Roma Capitale Culture Councillor Miguel Gotor also expressed gratitude to Pietro Valsecchi: “I would like to thank Pietro Valsecchi for his decision to purchase Pasolini’s house and donate it to the City,” he said. Informing the Campidoglio of the gesture was Valsecchi himself. The house will thus become a place of Pasolinian memory: the Campidoglio has announced that it will work in this direction as soon as it takes possession of the property.

After the failed project to build an International House of Poetry inside the structure, the news of the auction had arrived, which had aroused quite a bit of controversy, with the mobilization of popular Circles and Committees all united to say no to the auction. Last December, the auction had failed. Now the film producer’s decision will return the house to the City of Rome. “It was first and foremost the desire to do something for the city. We who are cultural workers must produce culture to make historical memory. Pasolini was one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century, it seemed right to return this strong symbolic value to the citizenship. Making cultural principals is important for young people and for the city,” Valsecchi told Ansa.

Pictured: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the set of Teorema. Photo by Angelo Novi

Casa Pasolini will be donated to Roma Capitale: it was purchased by a well-known film producer

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