Through original photos (mostly from the archive of Nadia Stancioff, Maria Callas's secretary and assistant during the making of Medea), dozens and dozens of magazines (weeklies, rotogravures) of the time, autographs and original manuscripts - Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. Chronicle of a Love reconstructs act by act and like a photo-story the "love story" between Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas and all the gossip that came out of it: the gossip, the insinuations about the relationship, the "mysterious kiss", the "marriage" between the two, the reactions of all the protagonists involved: the mother, the friends, the enemies etc. The book tells the story of an exceptional love with exceptional protagonists, and is the result of a long and meticulous research work among materials that are very difficult to find and never seen again: work of restoring the public surprise of the facts, of the amazement of contemporaries for what was happening: Pasolini and Callas in love and happy, with all the trail of rancor, spite, surprise, perplexity that this aroused. There is no doubt that Pasolini and Maria Callas were enchanted by each other, both in an abysmal way and to the point of dizziness. The book retraces this adventure, mercilessly, having only as a scruple to report the sounds and voices of the scene and capture the dazzles that passed through it.

The impossible love between Maria Callas and Pier Paolo Pasolini was born from a tragedy and, in the end, she returned to it. The paths of the Divine and the writer crossed when the latter, also devoted to directing, decided to make a film version of Euripides' Medea.
Maria was recovering from a stormy relationship with the shipowner Aristotle Onassis, who had preferred Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of the American president killed in 1963
Despite Pasolini's declared homosexuality, the relationship seemed to take off. The two spent long hours together walking, telling each other about themselves and exchanging passionate effusions, which gave Maria the illusion of being able to “change” the nature of her beloved, an idea that led her to follow him everywhere, around the world.
The paparazzi, at a certain point, surprised the couple while exchanging a kiss at the airport, unleashing gossip.
With these premises, the two spent the following summer together, that of 1970, staying on the island of Tragonisi, in the Aegean. In those months, he dedicated countless portraits and ten poems to her, full of feeling.
Their story ended as it had begun, and the two lost sight of each other, taken up with their respective work commitments.

Published on the occasion of the 2023/24 exhibition at the Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolini di Casarsa della Delizia.