«C’è troppa violenza su Roma. Non c’è più un fiore che sbocci in questa periferia». Da Petrolio all’orazione funebre di Casarsa

The intervention proposed on this essay analyzes the correspondence that could be tracked between Pasolini's position in the heated debate on the Circeo murder and the topics debated in his latest unfinished novel, Petrolio. The places of high-society’s Rome that are described in Petrolio, especially the Parioli district, are in fact atrociously recalled because of a crime news of fundamental importance for the history of Italy, which occurred just a month before the death of the writer in 1975.