ROME — After his arrival in Rome, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian film director, poet and intellectual, moved west of the Tiber, to the rapidly growing Monteverde neighborhood.

His time there, from 1954 to 1963, coincided with an important phase in his celebrity and notoriety — from the publication in 1955 of his provocative first novel, “Ragazzi di Vita,” to his initial forays in cinema as a scriptwriter and a director with 1961’s “Accattone,” about a lowlife pimp.

Pasolini eventually left the neighborhood, and met a violent and still baffling death on Nov. 2, 1975. But more than 40 years later, his memory in this town lives on through the disparate efforts of local residents.

“Pasolini is part of Monteverde’s identity,” said Luciana Capitolo, a retired high school teacher who has published a book about the artist’s life in the quarter.