Sometime before the night between 1st and 2nd November, 1975, when he was brutally murdered, Pier Paolo Pasolini met with the English journalist Peter Dragadze, with whom he had maintained a dialogue for six years and to whom he had given many interviews. On that day, Dragadze showed him a few papers, where he had gathered Pasolini’s opinions on various topics, explaining that they would become part of a long article devoted to the poet’s life and work. Pasolini seized the notes, took them with him, and a few days later, in the last encounter with his English friend (who he affectionately called ‘a pest’), he returned them to him saying: ‘This is almost a spiritual and intellectual testament. If anything happens, Dragadze, publish it. I think that some people might find it interesting.’ Two weeks later, the text was published in the weekly newspaper Gente with the title ‘Almost a testament’.
