Pasolini and the female universe

OnFriday, July 7, at 6 p.m., the conference room of the National Etruscan Museum at Rocca Albornoz in Viterbo will host the event "Pasolini and the Feminine Universe," guest of honor writer Dacia Maraini, who shared with the poet a love of writing, poetry, literature, travel and strong civic engagement and to whom she dedicated the poetic and intimate book Dear Pier Paolo in 2022.
The event, curated by author Rosella Lisoni, features the collaboration of Unitus Lecturer Anna Maria Fausto, actor, director and community storyteller Pietro Benedetti and Professor Francesca Pandimiglio.

Opening institutional greetings by Dr. Sara De Angelis, director of the National Etruscan Museum, and Dr. Clara Vittori, Head of School Liceo Ginnasio Buratti.

Focus of the event the deep, ongoing and fruitful relationship that Pier Paolo Pasolini weaved with the female universe.
His passion for poetry and writing first, cinema and literature later, offered him endless opportunities to collaborate with like-minded souls, women with whom he formed deep friendships and solid professional partnerships.
A figure of fundamental importance in the life of the great 20th-century intellectual was his mother: Susanna Colussi, "the one from whom everything began." She who showed Pier Paolo the path of poetry by dedicating to him, at the age of seven, a sonnet to which he responded with a short poem.
This was followed by Giovanna Bemporad, Silvana Mauri, Anna Magnani, Laura Betti, Elsa Morante, Oriana Fallaci, Silvana Mangano, Piera degli Esposti, and Maria Callas, just to name a few.
Personalities different from each other and often irreconcilable.
Of them, with Dacia Maraini's stories also taken from her book "Dear Pier Paolo," Rosella Lisoni will follow their tracks in order to interpret the "female figure" in Pasolini's copious production. Figure through which he accuses the processes of corruption, the emptying of values in an endless process of contestation of the dominant ideology.