Category: | Literary magazine |
Frequency: | Quarterly |
Founder: | Luciano Anceschi |
Founded: | 1956 |
Country: | Italy |
Based: | Milan |
Language: | Italian |
Website: | Il Verri |
Issn: | 0506-7715 |
Oclc: | 1624196 |
Il Verri is a quarterly literary magazine, which has been published since 1956. The magazine is based in Milan, Italy.
Il Verri was started by Luciano Anceschi in Milan in 1956.[1] [2] [3] The magazines is published quarterly in Milan.[2] [4] However, in 1973 it temporarily moved to Bologna.[2]
In the early 1960s Il Verri began to cover the writings of neo avant garde authors, including Umberto Eco, Edoardo Sanguineti, Antonio Porta and Nanni Balestrini.[1] They were part of a literary circle called Gruppo 63.[5] The magazine played a significant role for Umberto Eco in shaping his theories.[2] Luciano Erba and Alfredo Giuliani were also among the contributors.[2]
From its start in 1956 Il Verri has been instrumental in making some approaches familiar in Italy such as phenomenology, structuralism and semiology.[3] The magazine also covers poems were collected by Luciano Anceschi in a book in 1961.[1] [3]