Pasolini murder exhibits go on view

(ANSA) - Rome, October 30 - The shirt that the revered poet and film director Pierpaolo Pasolini wore on the night he was murdered and took off to stem his wounds as well as his shoes, still mud-spattered from the crime scene, will go on public display for the first time at the Eternal City's criminology museum to mark the 40th anniversary of his mysterious death, curators said Friday.
    Also at the Rome Criminology Museum fans of the left-wing intellectual can see the dark glasses the gay writer wore the night he died, Nov. 2, 1975, his trousers and books and other possessions taken from his car at the scene of the slaying as well as the wooden boards used to strike him by Giuseppe Pelosi, the rent boy who was convicted of the murder that spawned numerous conspiracy theories.
    Justice Minister Andrea Orlando visited the exhibit ahead of the opening Friday saying "the exhibit in its crudeness and brutality explains a historical moment marking a negative point in the civil and cultural life of our country".
    The exhibits from the murder trial have been stored at the museum since 1985 when they were transferred there from the Rome Juvenile Court.
    Among them is a ring that belonged to Pelosi which was "an important object in the reconstruction of the facts that opened the way to various interpretations," said the curator of the exhibit, Assunta Borzacchiello.