Roberto Carifi, is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. Considered one of the most important poet and intellectual of his generation he has been influenced by having a very difficult illness to cope with.
Cilento is an Italian geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the province of Salerno and an important tourist area of southern Italy.
Franco Loi was an Italian poet, writer, and essayist. He was born in Genoa, and died in Milan, aged 90. He made his debut in 1973 as a poet using dialect and had a good success with the work I cart, and the following year, 1974, with Poems of love. In 1975, the poet proved to have reached complete maturity of expression with the poem Stròlegh, published by Einaudi with a preface by Franco Fortini.
Menotti Augusto Serse Lerro is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, librettist and Anglicist academic. His work explores matters of social alienation and existentialism, the physicality and vulnerability of the body, the interpretation of memories, the meaning of objects and the philosophical importance of human identity. In 2015 he published Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno, a feminized bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla. In 2018 he wrote Il Dottor Faust, an original version of the character of Faust. In addition he is the author of a New Manifesto of Arts and the founder of the Empathic Movement (Empathism) that arose in the South of Italy at the beginning of 2020.
Donna Giovanna, the Trickster of Salerno is a play written by the Italian poet, writer, dramatist, librettist and academic Menotti Lerro. The original title was just Donna Giovanna first published on 2015, performed on 25 November 2017 at the Biblioteca Marucelliana of Florence. The play is considered an innovative feminine and bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla.
Antonello Pelliccia is an Italian visual artist and former professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. He is the author of a New Manifesto of Arts considered the first theoretical basis of the Empathic Movement (Empathism).
Bernardo Lanzetti is an Italian singer, founder of Acqua Fragile and frontman of the Premiata Forneria Marconi for some years.
Enrico Testa is an Italian poet and professor in Italian Studies at the University of Genova.
Elio Pecora is an Italian poet and writer. Since 2020 he adhered to Empathism. In 2020 he won the Cilento International Poetry Prize.
Omar Galliani is an Italian painter and professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera of Milan. He is one of the member of the Empathic Movement (Empathism) and in 2023 received the Cilento International Poetry Prize.
Maria Rita Parsi is an Italian psychotherapist, writer and television commentator. In 2020 she adhered to Empathism. In 2023 she was awarded with Cilento International Poetry Prize.
Mauro Afro Borella is an Italian architect and professor at Albertina Academy of Turin. He is one of the member of the Empathic Movement (Empathism).
Luigi Rossi is a former professor and Head of Department at Università degli Studi di Salerno. He is one of the member of the Empathic Movement (Empathism).
Vittorio Santoianni is professor of Decoration at Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. He participated at Biennale di Venezia. Since the mid-1990s he has worked mainly in the field of historical research and criticism, where he has numerous publications on twentieth-century and contemporary architects and artists. He has curated various exhibitions. He is an Honorary Academician of the Academy of Drawing Arts in Florence. He is one of the firsts members of the Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti founded in 2019 by Menotti Lerro. Since 2020 he adhered to Empathism.
Alessandro Quasimodo is an Italian actor, son of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1959) Salvatore Quasimodo. He studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Since 1979 he is working with poetry. Since 2020 he adhered to Empathism.
Vivian Lamarque is an Italian poet, writer and translator. In 2019 she was awarded with Cilento International Poetry Prize founded by Menotti Lerro. She is one of the members of the Empathic Movement (Empathism).
Lucrezia Lerro is an Italian poet and writer.
Maurizio Cucchi is an Italian poet and writer. Since 2023 he adhered to the Empathic Movement (Empathism) founded in Italy by Menotti Lerro in 2020. In 2023 he received Cilento International Poetry Prize.
Davide Rondoni is an Italian poet and writer. He is one of the members of the Empathic Movement (Empathism). In 2017 he received Cilento International Poetry Prize.
Tomasz Krezymon is a Polish pianist, composer, arranger, producer and professor at Chopin University of Music. He is one of the members of the Empathic Movement (Empathism).
