Alexandru Balaci e la comunicazione interculturale italo-romena
Alexandru Balaci and the Intercultural Communication between Italy and Romania

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the essential role played by professor Alexandru Balaci in the intercultural communication between Italy and Romania in the communist period. The first part focuses on his relationship with communist censorship. Thanks to his membership in the Communist Party, as well as to his high position in the academia, Balaci sometimes manages to evade censorship and to promote works of art which were considered subversive by the authorities. Two examples illustrate his prestige and influence in the cultural scene. Balaci introduces information about Pasolini’s Il Decameron in an interview in Cinema, a film magazine which never mentions this famous masterpiece. He even manages to have Francesco Jovine’s Terre del Sacramento published, after having been initially rejected by censors. The second part of the article presents the activity carried out by Balaci in Rome, as director of the Accademia di Romania, and the difficulties encountered in the relationship with the Romanian institutions.

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