Il Verri Explained

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.

History and profile

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]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gino Moliterno. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. 2002. Routledge. 978-1-134-75876-0. 289,467. London; New York.
  2. Book: Peter Bondanella. Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture. registration. 1997. 978-0-521-44200-8. Cambridge University Press. 21. Cambridge.
  3. Book: Gaetana Marrone. Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. 978-1-135-45530-9. 2006. 985. New York; London.
  4. Web site: Il Verri. National Library of Australia. 26 November 2016.
  5. Book: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. Man within His Life-World: Contributions to Phenomenology by Scholars from East-Central Europe. 443. Dordrecht. Constantin Crişan. https://books.google.com/books?id=-hYyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT443. 2013. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-94-009-2587-8. Common Humanity and the Present-Day Romanian Novel (Reflection and Refraction).