Casal Velino, also spelled Casalvelino, is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Centola is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Perdifumo is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Polla is a town and comune of the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-west Italy. In 2011 its population was 5,327.
Roccadaspide is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Salento is a town and comune in the Cilento area, province of Salerno, in the Campania region of south-western Italy. Known as "The Poetry Village", is important part of the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento, epicenter of Empathism. In Salento the Cilento International Poetry Prize was founded by Menotti Lerro in 2017.
Sapri is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is one of the southernmost towns of the region of Cilento and its population is 6,783.
Vallo della Lucania is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It lies in the middle of Cilento and its population is 8,680.
Vibonati is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
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.
The Alento is a river in southwestern Italy. Originating from "Le Corne" mountain, nearby the village of Gorga, it flows in the Campanian territory of Cilento, in the Province of Salerno. Its mouth is on the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Ancient Greek town of Velia, at the borders between the municipalities of Casal Velino and Ascea.
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.
Cilento International Poetry Prize is an Italian literary prize founded in 2017 by the poet, writer and literary critic Menotti Lerro and awarded annually, in the month of August, in Salento Cilento—"The Poetry Village".
The Empathic Movement is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement founded in the South of Italy in 2020 within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento': Omignano - "The Aphorisms Village", Salento - "The Poetry Village", Vallo della Lucania - "Seat of Contemporary Arts Centre". From this first Triangle the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento was born to represent the enlarged epicenter of the Movement with 25 villages involved which joined with a new cultural identity and signing a protocol agreement.
The Cultural Pyramid of Cilento is a geometric drawing created in 2020 by the poet Menotti Lerro representing the epicenter of the Empathism. The Pyramid shape came out adding the "Cultural Triangle" founded by Lerro at the historical summits of high cultural tradition of the Cilento area.
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).
Francesco D'Episcopo is an Italian literary critic and former professor at University of Naples Federico II. He is President of the Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti and 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).
Lucrezia Lerro is an Italian poet and writer. In 2014 she received the Grinzane Cavour Prize.
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.
