Categories | Literary magazine |
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Frequency | Quarterly |
Founder | Luciano Anceschi |
Founded | 1956 |
Country | Italy |
Based in | 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]