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The chapter focuses on the text of a famous article -Nuove questioni linguistiche- published by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1964, in issue 51 of the magazine Rinascita founded in 1944 by Palmiro Togliatti, historical secretary of the Italian Communist Party. From Pasolini’s reflections, heirs of Antonio Gramsci’s lesson, emerged an intense debate about the present and the future of the national language in a period of an economic growth both unquestionable and loaded with deep tensions that would soon lead to the so-called “Years of Lead”., Pier Paolo Pasolini; Language; Italy; Antonio Gramsci; Rinascita; Nuove questioni linguistiche