Gianni Toti Archive Moves from Rome to Alatri's Palazzo Gottifredo

The entire archive of Italian intellectual Gianni Toti (1924–2007) is relocating from Rome to Alatri's historic Palazzo Gottifredo. Toti, a journalist, writer, filmmaker, poet, and artist, was a prolific accumulator whose Rome home was packed with 15,000 volumes, a complete video library, personal correspondence, artworks by his first wife Marika Dallos, and photographs with figures like Pasolini, Zavattini, Marguerite Duras, Robbe-Grillet, and Che Guevara. The archive, previously held by the Casa Totiana cultural association in Rome, was donated by his widow Pia Abella Toti to the Gottifredo association, which since 2017 has run an artistic coworking space in collaboration with the University of Cassino and supported by the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro Internazionale. The new center, named "Visioni molteplici," will be open to the public and serve scholars and students. Toti was a journalist for l'Unità, Paese Sera, and Vie Nuove, directed La Voce di Sicilia and Lavoro, co-founded the avant-garde magazine Carte Segrete, and pioneered "videopoetronica," a form of visual poetry pushing electronic image limits. His 1973 film "E di Shaùl e dei sicari sulle vie di Damasco" used experimental language and found footage to reinterpret Saint Paul in Marxist terms.