At the end of the forties Pier Paolo Pasolini (at the time poet, teacher and city secretary of the PCI) was indicted for corruption of minors and obscene acts for having convinced, during a party in the Friulian village of Ramello, some teenagers to seclude themselves with him. Without violence or denunciations, the carabinieri proceed against him on the basis of ‘country voices’. Pointed out by all as ‘depraved’, Pasolini sees his