Since his violent death in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but less known as a poet, journalist, critic and activist outside his native Italy. This week, Juliet talks to Italian author Daniela Cascella about Pasolini’s varied artistic practice, the persecution he suffered as an outspoken leftist and openly gay man, and the context of post-fascist, post-war Italy.SELECTED REFERENCESWORKS BY PASOLINIArticles‘I Know’ (1974) - https://overland.org.au/2012/03/what-is-this-coup-detat-i-know/NovelsHustlers (1955)A Violent Life (1959)Petrolio (1992) – http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/reviews/970323.23eberstt.htmlFilmsAccattone (1961)La Ricotta (1962) – http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleMurphy.htmlThe Gospel According to Matthew (1964) – https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n06/michael-wood/at-the-moviesLove Meetings (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_MeetingsTheorem (1968)Medea (1969)Porcile (Pigsty, 1969)The Decameron (1971)The Canterbury Tales (1972)Arabian Nights (1974)Salò: 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-lost-pasolini-interviewPoems‘Gramsci’s Ashes’ (1954) – https://gramsciintheworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/gramscis-ashes.pdf‘The PCI to Young People’ (1968) – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/pier-paolo-pasolini-pci-communist-partyBernardo BertolucciMaria CallasITALO CALVINO, Invisible Cities (1973) – https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-letters-of-italo-calvino-day-vDANIELA CASCELLA, ‘Faint Signals’ - https://minorliteratures.com/2018/09/07/faint-signals-of-the-imaginal-and-the-aural-of-speaking-with-the-dead-and-their-books-for-impossible-writing-daniela-cascella/Ernesto de Martino – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_de_MartinoMARQUIS DE SADE, 120 Days of Sodom (1785) – https://www.odaha.com/sites/default/files/120_days_of_sodom.pdfFYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, Demons (1872) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel)Death in Venice (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1971) – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/death-venice-arthouseDARIO FO, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKfwC70YZIFuori! (Turin gay collective)Diamanda Galás, ‘Supplica a mia madre’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4D3Gxk_jkAndré GideJean-Luc GodardUgo GregorettiJacques LacanRoberto Longhi – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_LonghiLa Lotta Continua (publication) - https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/lotta-continuaMARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique – https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/mario-mieli-keep-treasure-in-my-arseMarianne MooreAlberto MoraviaNights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783Ezra Pound – http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/pier_paolo_pasolini_talks_and_reads_poetry_with_ezra_pound_1967_.htmlStefano Rodotà – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_RodotàRoGoPaG (various directors, 1963) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056171Roberto RosselliniJean-Paul SartreAugust StrindbergGiovanni Tiso – https://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.comLars von TrierWu Ming Foundation – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2719-the-police-vs-pasolini-pasolini-vs-the-police