(ANSA) - CASARSA DELLA DELIZIA, 08 MAY - By now of a faded color, a couple of them without a cover, but all together and exhibited for the first time: Pasolini's famous Red Notebooks are among the most exciting documents that can be seen by visiting the exhibition "The Academiuta and his trepidodesire for poetry. The Friulian years of Pasolini", open (from 9 May) to 3 October in the Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolinidi Casarsa (Pordenone). In the spring of 1946 Pasolini began an intimate diary, written in pen on five red-covered school notebooks, the so-called "Quaderni rossi" (currently kept in the Naldini Fund in the Casarsa Study Center). Pages where he describes a tormented inner monologue, a self-analysis in which Pasolini faces his "destiny not to love according to the norm. "The author entrusted the notebooks to the young Nico Naldini in the moment of his hasty flight to Rome with his mother Susanna.
The cousin kept them in a secret drawer, to forget about them and only after Pasolini's death were extracts from the diary made known by Naldini himself: first in the volume "Poems and rediscovered pages" (1980) and subsequently in the biography "Pasolini, una vita" (1989) . (HANDLE).