Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, billed on-screen as Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints and commonly referred to as simply Salò, is a 1975 political drama crime film directed and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1785 novel The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade, updating the story's setting to the World War II era. It was Pasolini's final film, released three weeks after his murder.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure. He is known for directing the movies from Trilogy of Life.
Luigi Ballerini is an Italian writer, poet, and translator.
Medea is a 1969 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the ancient myth of Medea. The film stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role and is largely a faithful portrayal of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and the events of Euripides' play The Medea.
Biagio Marin was a Venetian and Italian poet, best known for his poems in the Venetian language. In his writings he never obeyed rhetoric or poetics. He only employed a few hundred words for his poems.
The Strega Prize is the most important Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published between 1 March of the previous year and 28/29 February.
Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Fregene Prize for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.
Gabriella Sica is an Italian poet.
Antonio Porta was an Italian author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Luigi Augusto Fontanella is an Italian poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
Beppe Costa is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher.
José Agustín Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, scholar and essayist. He was the brother of Juan Goytisolo and Luis Goytisolo, also writers.
Alda Merini was an Italian writer and poet. Her work earned the attention and admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Domenico Naldini was an Italian novelist, poet and film director. Some of his work has been translated into English.
Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Brunello Rondi was an Italian screenwriter and film director, best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini.
Fabio Barcellandi is an Italian poet and translator.
Barbara Carle is a French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist. She is Professor Emerita of Italian at California State University Sacramento.
Adele Cambria was an Italian journalist, writer and actress.
