Pasolini RequiemPier Paolo Pasolini (192275) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the postWorld War II era. An astonishing polymathpoet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film directorhe exerted profound influence on Italian culture up to his untimely death at the age of fifty three. This revised edition of what the New York Times Book Review has called the standard Pasolini biography introduces the artist to a new