"A beautifully evocative biography . . . of one of contemporary Western culture's few true Renaissance men." — San Francisco ChroniclePier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymath—poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director—he exerted profound influence on Italian culture up to his untimely death at the age o...