Editing Pier Paolo Pasolini (section)

=== Early life ===
Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in [[Bologna]], Italy. He was the son of elementary-school teacher Susanna Colussi, named after her great-grandmother,<ref>Frank Northen Magill, ''Critical survey of poetry: foreign language series'', Salem Press, 1984, p. 1145</ref> and Carlo Alberto Pasolini, a lieutenant in the [[Royal Italian Army]]; they had married in 1921. Pasolini was born in 1922 and named after a paternal uncle. His family moved to [[Conegliano]] in 1923, then to [[Belluno]] in 1925, where their second son, Guidalberto, was born. In 1926, Pasolini's father was arrested for gambling debts. His mother moved with the children to her family's home in [[Casarsa della Delizia]], in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. In that same year, his father first detained, then identified [[Anteo Zamboni]] as the would-be assassin of [[Benito Mussolini]] following his assassination attempt.{{Citation needed|reason=Is it an established fact that he saved it, or is this merely based on his claim of having done so? There appears to be conflicting testimony, such as by Marshal Francesco Burgio.|date=September 2014}} Carlo Alberto was persuaded of the virtues of [[Italian fascism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Siciliano |first=Enzo |date=2014 |title=Pasolini; Una vida tormentosa |publisher=Torres de Papel|page=37|isbn=978-84-943726-4-3}}</ref>

Pasolini began writing poems at age seven, inspired by the natural beauty of Casarsa. One of his early influences was the work of [[Arthur Rimbaud]]. His father was transferred to [[Idria]] in the [[Julian March]] (now in [[Slovenia]]) in 1931;<ref>[http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/drugo/ste-vedeli-da-je-pier-paolo-pasolini-v-otrostvu-nekaj-casa-zivel-v-idriji/294028 Ste vedeli, da je Pier Paolo Pasolini v otroštvu nekaj časa živel v Idriji?: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija]. Rtvslo.si (20 October 2012). Retrieved 22 May 2014.</ref> in 1933 they moved again to [[Cremona]] in Lombardy, and later to [[Scandiano]] and [[Reggio Emilia]]. Pasolini found it difficult to adapt to all these dislocations, although he enlarged his poetry and literature readings ([[Dostoyevsky]], [[Tolstoy]], [[Shakespeare]], [[Coleridge]], [[Novalis]]) and left behind the religious fervour of his early years. In the Reggio Emilia high school, he met his first true friend, Luciano Serra. The two met again in Bologna, where Pasolini spent seven years completing high school. Here he cultivated new passions, including [[Association football|football]]. With other friends, including Ermes Parini, Franco Farolfi, Elio Meli, he formed a group dedicated to literary discussions.

In 1939, Pasolini graduated and entered the Literature College of the [[University of Bologna]], discovering new themes such as [[philology]] and [[aesthetics]] of [[figurative art]]s. He also frequented the local cinema club. Pasolini always showed his friends a virile and strong exterior, totally hiding his interior turmoil. In his poems of this period, Pasolini started to include fragments in [[Friulan]], a minority language he did not speak but learned after he had begun to write poetry in it. "I learnt it as a sort of mystic act of love, a kind of ''[[Félibrige|félibrisme]]'', like the [[Occitan literature|Provençal poets]]."<ref>Stack, O. (1969). ''Pasolini on Pasolini'', pp. 15–17, London: Thames and Hudson.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref> In 1943, he would found the ''Academiuta della lenga furlana'' (Academy of the Friulan Language) with fellow students.<ref>Thompson, N.S. (1981), ''Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poet and Prophet'', in Murray, Glen (ed.), ''[[Cencrastus]]'' No. 7, Winter 1981 - 82, pp. 30 - 32.</ref> As a young adult, Pasolini identified as an [[atheist]].<ref>Guy Flatley, [http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/pasolini.html The Atheist who was Obsessed with God] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172047/http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/pasolini.html |date=3 March 2016}}, 1969, located at Moviecrazed.com (accessed 25 April 2008).</ref>

In the waning years of [[World War II]], Pasolini was [[Conscription|drafted]] into the [[Royal Italian Army|Italian Army]].<ref name="poetry foundation">[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pier-paolo-pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1922–1975] [[Poetry Foundation]]. Retrieved May 9, 2024.</ref> After his regiment was [[Prisoner of war|captured]] by the [[Nazi Germany|Germans]] following [[Armistice of Cassibile|Italy's surrender]], he escaped and fled to the small town of [[Casarsa della Delizia|Casarsa]] where he remained for several years.<ref name="poetry foundation"/>