L’histoire en marge I Turcs Tal Friul de Pier Paolo Pasolini

I Turcs Tal Friul is a play in Friulian by Pasolini. Set during the 1499 Ottoman invasion of Friuli, the play invites comparisons with the German occupation during WW2 and the vicissitudes of Pasolini and his brother Guido, who joined the armed resistance struggle. The article argues for the importance of I Turcs in reassessing Pasolini’s engagement with Friuli and its language, as well as his ideas about the entry into history of marginal communities that he will later extend to other peripheries.