2024-07-25 00:27:19
(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 24 – “We lived in a house without a roof and without plaster, a poor man’s house, on the outskirts, near a prison. There was a palm of dust in the summer, and a swamp in the winter”: this is how Pier Paolo Pasolini described his house in ‘Poet of the Ashes’ at via Giovanni Tagliere 3, in the Ponte Mammolo neighborhood of Rome, not far from the Rebibbia prison. The author lived there with his mother between 1951 and 1954 and wrote his first novel, ‘Ragazzi di vita’. Now that apartment has been donated to the State by Pietro Valsecchi, the film and television producer who bought it at auction after the controversy over its sale following the bankruptcy in 2019 of the Bonifaci Srl Group, owner of the property. The deed of donation was signed today by Valsecchi himself and, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, by the Director General of Museums, Massimo Osanna, in the presence of Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and Undersecretary of Culture, Gianmarco Mazzi, at the Ministry headquarters. The property will now be assigned to the Istituto Pantheon e Castel Sant’Angelo – Directorate of National Museums of the City of Rome and will become a cultural center and residence for young artists. “Pasolini worked a lot on the urban outskirts, he gave us a climate, an atmosphere – commented Sangiuliano – the ministry is committed to using this property to make it a center capable of hosting young people who want to practice art, poetry, culture in all its forms and in this way remember the figure of the great Pasolini”. The apartment will therefore have “a more innovative function as a cultural hub and place for the development of creativity – said Osanna – We will start a choral project, which actively involves the territory”. “The house today can become a beacon and a point of creation for young people, where there is no culture, in these now desolate lands, these suburbs that have now become no man’s lands – Valsecchi declared – perhaps ten, one hundred Pasolini houses would be needed to become cultural centers in the suburbs”. (ANSA).
2024-07-25 00:27:19