News at Eleven: [Pier Paolo] Pasolini's seventeen-year-old assassin

came from one of these borgate--Tiburtino III. Built in 1935 on marshland, Tiburtino III is still periodically flooded by the Aniene, a tributary of the Tiber, its Fascist-era tenement blocks now blanched ochre, with peeling green shutters. The tenements are not the "human habitations" promised by Fascism, "but coves of disease, of violence, malavita and prostitution", in the words of Pasolini. Yet the outskirts, strewn with broken washbasins, chicken coops, prams, shoes and old tyres sprouting poppies, present a characteristically Pasolinian pasticcio of the poetic and the squalid.

from The Times Literary Supplement: Pasolini's Roman poetry

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