(ANSAmed) - ROMA, 15 NOV - The first home in Rome of the
author and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the first floor of a
building in the Ponte Mammolo area and measuring 40 square
meters, is due to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
The Rome outskirt is where the writer first came into contact
with the population of the Italian capital's working class
outlying areas, which were to be the subject of many of his
works.
It was here that he wrote the first chapter of 'Ragazzi di
Vita', a coming of age novel for him, and was where he moved in
1950 with his mother.
Though there had been a plan to make it into a 'House of
Poetry', the plan fell through and it will thus be sold off
despite its cultural and historic value.
Many associations and other in the area have launched a
petition to try to stop the move and to instead turn the former
home of the well-known poet into a museum.
The petition states that the centenary of the poet's death,
which will be celebrated in 2022, could be an "excellent
opportunity" to start such a "cultural and social project".
(ANSAmed).
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