Il Verri is a quarterly literary magazine, which has been published since 1956. The magazine is based in Milan, Italy.

Il Verri
Collection of Il Verri issues
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
FounderLuciano Anceschi
Founded1956
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian
WebsiteIl Verri
ISSN0506-7715
OCLC1624196

History and profile

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gino Moliterno, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 289, 467. ISBN 978-1-134-75876-0.
  2. ^ a b c d e Peter Bondanella (1997). Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-521-44200-8.
  3. ^ a b c Gaetana Marrone, ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. New York; London: Routledge. p. 985. ISBN 978-1-135-45530-9.
  4. ^ "Il Verri". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  5. ^ Constantin Crişan (2013). "Common Humanity and the Present-Day Romanian Novel (Reflection and Refraction)". In Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.). Man within His Life-World: Contributions to Phenomenology by Scholars from East-Central Europe. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 443. ISBN 978-94-009-2587-8.
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