Valsecchi buys the Pasolini house and will donate it to the Capitol

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 31 - The Roman house of Pier Paolo Pasolini in via Giovanni Tagliere 3 in the Rebibbia district, where the poet lived at the beginning of the 1950s, was bought at auction by the film producer Pietro Valsecchi who will donate to Rome Capital.

"It was Valsecchi himself - commented the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri - who gave me the news a little while ago and confirmed that the house will be donated to the Municipality of Rome. I want to thank Valsecchi for this beautiful gesture of love towards the city and a great intellectual like Pasolini on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth ".

"I would like to thank PietroValsecchi for his decision to buy Pasolin's house and donate it to the Municipality.

   We who are 'cultural operators' must produce culture to make historical memory.

Pasolini was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century, it seemed right to restore this strong symbolic value to citizenship.

Creating cultural presidencies is important for young people and for the city ", explains to ANSA the film and television producer, founder of Taodue Film with his wife Camilla Nesbitt. (ANSA).