Il Verri

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Il Verri
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Collection of Il Verri issues
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
Founder Luciano Anceschi
Founded1956
CountryItaly
Based in Milan
LanguageItalian
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.

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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]

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