Pasolini recalled on 40th anniversary of murder

(ANSA) - Rome, November 2 - Forty years after his murder, artists, members of the public and intellectuals paid tribute Monday to artist and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini inside the Literary Park dedicated to him in the seaside resort of Ostia.
    The commemoration was organised by the Pasolini literary parks and the Lipu Mediterranean Habitat of Ostia and the artist Mario Rosati as part of the programme 'Pasolini40: a future memory'.
    Alessandro Polinori, head of the CHM Lipu of Ostia and Rosati, author of plaques dedicated to Pasolini, presided over the ceremonies.
    Among those taking part were Stanislao de Marsanich, president of the Italian Literary Parks, actor and poet Ugo Innamorati, the 'rent boys' Silvio Parrello and Tarzanetto, representatives of the Luciano Massimo Consoli foundation, the poet Michela Zanarella, the director Federico Bruno, who presented a new sculpture dedicated to Pasolini and Filipo Lange from the Lido Theatre. After years of neglect, the place where Pasolini was murdered has become a literary garden in the Mediterranean Habitat Centre on the Via dell'Idroscalo.
    Volunteers keep it clean throughout the year. In recent weeks scores of people impassioned by Pasolini have visited the spot from around Italy but also from France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria.