Pasolini’s Ashes: Nanni Moretti’s Tribute in Dear Diary

Abstract

My aim is to develop an investigative “journey” for clarifying a passage from the film Dear Diary by Nanni Moretti, in which a tribute is paid to Pier Paolo Pasolini, exploring its historical, political and cultural implications. The hypothesis of my investigation is the existence of structural and narrative similarities between Nanni Moretti’s tribute and the poem “Gramsci’s Aches” by Pasolini.