Il Teatro del Manifesto di Pier Paolo Pasolini come dispositivo pedagogico-didattico per la società: la proposta trasformativa del pedagogista corsaro in dialogo con Lorenzo Milani

This article investigates how it is possibile to consider as a proposal to the educational requests of “Letter to a professor” (1967) and to the pedagogy of Lorenzo Milani the idea of the school of linguistic and ethical-political re-education for society contained in Pasolini’s “Teatro di Parola” (Pasolini, 1968; Gianeselli, 2022b; 2022c). Pasolini publishes his “Manifesto for a new theatre” and meets the young pupils of the Barbiana School between 1967 and 1968. He also defines “Letter to a professor” «a book written with great grace» because it contains the highest definition of poetry: «the hate that becomes love, once deepened and clarified» (Pasolini, 1999a, p. 831). Milani and Pasolini meet precisely in the transformative act of poetry that for both becomes an act of emancipation, self- determination, overcoming political and social subordination, getting over individual and collective fragilities (Wenger, 1999).