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Neoavanguardia
The Neoavanguardia ("New Vanguard") was a postmodern avant-garde literature of Italy, Italian literary movement oriented towards radical forms of experimentation with language and art. Some of its most prominent members include Nanni Balestrini, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco, Antonio Porta (author), Antonio Porta, Elio Pagliarani, Lucia Di Luciano, Alfredo Giuliani, Giorgio Manganelli, Luigi Malerba, Germano Lombardi, Francesco Leonetti, Alberto Gozzi, Massimo Ferretti, Franco Lucentini, Giovanni Pizzo, Amelia Rosselli, Sebastiano Vassalli, Patrizia Vicinelli and Lello Voce. The movement originated as Gruppo '63, during a meeting of contributors to the literary magazine ''Il Verri'' in a hotel at Solunto, near Palermo. A second meeting would be held three years later in La Spezia. Neoavanguardia poets and writers were mostly inspired by modernist English language writers such as Ezra Pound and TS Eliot and the Italian poet and iconoclast Emilio Villa. They were opposed to the ''c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Malerba
Luigi Malerba (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2008), born Luigi Bonardi, was an Italian author known for his short stories, historical novels, and screenplays. He was a prominent figure in the Neoavanguardia movement and co-founded ''Gruppo 63'', a literary collective influenced by Marxism and Structuralism. Some of his most renowned works include La scoperta dell'alfabeto, The Serpent, What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too?, Dopo il pescecane, Testa d'argento, Il fuoco greco, Le pietre volanti, Roman Ghosts, and Ithaca Forever: Penelope Speaks. Malerba also wrote several stories and novels for children, collaborating on some of them with Tonino Guerra. He was the first writer to win the Prix Médicis#Laureates Prix Médicis étranger, Prix Médicis étranger in 1970. He received several prestigious awards, including the Brancati Prize in 1979, the in 1987, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1989 (alongside :it:Stefano Jacomuzzi, Stefano Jacomuzzi and Raffaele La Capria), the Viareggio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanni Balestrini
Nanni Balestrini (2 July 1935 – 19 May 2019) was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement. Context Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers' movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine '' Il Verri'', founded and co-directed the now-defunct '' Alfabeta'' and was one of the Italian writers published in the anthology '' I Novissimi'' (1961). Balestrini was born in Milan. During the 1960s, as the group was growing and becoming the Gruppo 63, Balestrini was the editor of their publications. From 1962 to 1972, he was working for Feltrinelli, cooperating with the publishers and editing some issues of the ''Cooperativa Scrittori''. In 1968, Balestrini was co-founder of the Potere Operaio political group and in 1976 was an important supporter of the Autonomia Operaia. In 1979, he was accused of membership in a guerilla group and fled to Paris and later Germany. Balestrini became known by a larger public than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiano Vassalli
Sebastiano Vassalli (24 October 1941 – 26 July 2015) was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel ''The Italian (L'italiano)''. Vassalli was born in Genoa, Italy in 1941. His mother was from Tuscany and his father was from Lombardy. At a very young age, he was abandoned to relatives in Novara for some flour and oil. He went on to complete his Bachelor of arts degree in Milan. Soon after, Vassalli partnered with Cesare Musatti and wrote a book on ''Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Art'' which ultimately began his career as a notable author. Vassalli devoted himself to teaching and researching artistic Neoavanguardia and was also involved with the Gruppo 63. He was a very dedicated man especially when it came to writing. He wrote for ''La Repubblica'', ''La Stampa (English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023. Distributed in Italy and other European nations, it is one of the oldest newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Porta (author)
Antonio Porta (pen-name of Leo Paolazzi) was an Italian author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63. Biography Antonio Porta was born Leo Paolazzi in Vicenza in 1935. In 1958, he became an editor of the literary magazine '' Il Verri'' under Luciano Anceschi. During his time as an editor, he wrote a collection of poems to be included in the anthology ''I novissimi'' (1961), which included works by Elio Pagliarani, Edoardo Sanguineti, Alfredo Giuliani, and Nanni Balestrini. Gruppo 63 From his experience with ''Il verri'', Porta began collaborating with an avant-garde Italian movement called ''Gruppo 63''. While working to develop their ideas, he travelled to the conventions they held in Palermo, Reggio Emilia, " La Sapienza", and Fano. From 1963 to 1967, Porta was actively involved in the editing of another avant-garde magazine ''Malebolge'' from Reggio Emilia. In these years he also began working in visual poetry, participating in exh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Manganelli
Giorgio Manganelli (15 November 1922 – 28 May 1990) was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo 63. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and authors like T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Eric Ambler, O. Henry, Ezra Pound, Robert Louis Stevenson, Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...'s ''Manfred'' and others into Italian. He published an experimental work of fiction, ''Hilarotragoedia'', in 1964, at the time he was a member of the avant-garde '' Gruppo 63'' (Group 63). ''Centuria'', which won the Viareggio Prize is probably his most approachable; it was transl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Verri
''Il Verri'' is a quarterly literary magazine, which has been published since 1956. The magazine is based in Milan, Italy. History and profile ''Il Verri'' was started by Luciano Anceschi in Milan in 1956. The magazines is published quarterly in Milan. However, in 1973 it temporarily moved to Bologna. 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. They were part of a literary circle called Gruppo 63. The magazine played a significant role for Umberto Eco in shaping his theories. Luciano Erba and Alfredo Giuliani were also among the contributors. From its start in 1956 ''Il Verri'' has been instrumental in making some approaches familiar in Italy such as phenomenology, structuralism and semiology Semiotics ( ) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Lucentini
Franco Lucentini (; 24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ... and editor of anthologies. Biography Born in Rome on 24 December 1920 to Emma Marzi and Venanzio Lucentini, a miller from the village of Visso, in the Marche region, and later the owner of a bakery in Rome. While studying Philosophy at the University of Rome, Lucentini was one of the organizers of a practical joke against the fascist regime: on 5 May 1941, he and a friend distributed among other students paper streamers. When unrolled during a public meeting, they revealed writings such as "Down with the war!", "Down with Hitler!" and "Long live freedom!". Lucentini was arrested and spent two months in prison. Lucentini gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Leonetti
Francesco Leonetti (27 January 1924 – 17 December 2017) was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist. Biography Leonetti was born in Cosenza in Calabria. In 1955 he moved to Bologna to study philosophy. There he met Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Roversi, and together they co-founded the magazine ''Officina''. In the 1960s he co-founded with Elio Vittorini and Italo Calvino the literary magazine ''Il Menabò''. In 1963 he joined the Neoavanguardia avant-garde Italian literary movement. Leonetti collaborated with Pasolini again in 1964, playing the part of Herod Antipas in '' The Gospel According to St. Matthew''. He also provided the voice of the sparrow in '' The Hawks and the Sparrows'' (1966) and played the part of the servant Laio in the 1967 film ''Oedipus Rex''. In the 1970s he co-edited with Nanni Balestrini the magazine '' Alfabeta''. In 1974 he authored a monograph on Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. From 1975 to 1995 he taught Aesthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lello Voce
Lello Voce (born in Naples, Italy, in 1957) is an Italian poet, writer, and journalist. He was among the founders of Gruppo 93 and of the six-monthly literary magazine ''Baldus''. He lives and works in Treviso, Veneto. Career Written work and poetry Voce published ''Singin’ Napoli cantare'' in 1982, ''Musa!'' in 1995, and ''I segni i suoni le cose'' in 1996. His first novel, ''Eroina'' was published in 1999. He wrote all of his second novel, ''Cucarachas'', live online at www.raisatzoom.it, and it was published in 2002 by DeriveApprodi. His poetry collection, ''Farfalle da combattimento'', was published in 1999 by Bompiani, part of the InVersi series edited by Aldo Nove. The release includes an audio CD with his readings and music by Paolo Fresu and Frank Nemola, and is illustrated with six drawings by Silvio Merlino. ''Lai'' was published in 2007 by edizioni d'if, and his novels were republished by No Reply in the same year, collected under the title ''Il Cristo elettrico' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elio Pagliarani
Elio Pagliarani (25 May 1927 – 8 March 2012) was an Italian poet and literary critic, who belonged to the avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement. He was born in Viserba, near Rimini. Pagliarani graduated in Politics Science at Padua, and in the 1940s he moved to Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ... where he worked as a journalist and as a teacher. In 1960 he moved to Rome. In the 1950s he worked for '' L'Avanti!'' and, from 1968, as theatre critic for '' Paese Sera''. His most renowned work is the experimental poem " La ragazza Carla", published in 1960. Pagliarani's poems usually deal with realist themes, such as work, economics, and the lower classes. In 1971 he founded the magazine '' Periodo Ipotetico'', and later he also worked for '' Nuova Corrente''. Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian Medieval studies, medievalist, philosopher, Semiotics, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel ''The Name of the Rose'', a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as ''Foucault's Pendulum'', his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes. Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine ''L'Espresso'' beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romanticism, Romantic paintings of Francesco Hayez) appearing 27 January 2016. At the time of his death, he was an Emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, where he taught for much of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century. Biography In 1956, Sanguineti published his first poetry collection, Laborintus. The author adopted a “labyrinthine” structure in these poems, preceding the poetic sperimentalism that characterized the 1960s. During the 1960s, he was a leader of the neo-avant-garde '' Gruppo 63'' movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto. His work was published in the first issue of 0 to 9 magazine in 1967. He was also an active translator of Joyce, Molière, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and select Greek and Latin authors. From 1979 until 1983, Sanguineti was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. He was elected as an independent on the list of the Italian Communist Party. He was an atheist. Death Sanguineti died on 18 May 2010 at Villa Scassi Hospital in Genoa following em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
