On April 29, at 10:30 am in room 6 of the Department of Humanities of the University of Salerno, which organized the event in collaboration with the Writing and Visual Arts Laboratory, the presentation of the anthology Poeti Empatici Italiani (Genesi publishing, 2025), edited by Menotti Lerro, will be held, dedicated to the authors who have formally joined Empathism, the literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement of Contemporaneity that arose in Italy in 2020 with its epicenter the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento, formed by 25 villages symbolically united by the light of Monte Stella, emblem of fertility and regeneration.
The Movement’s fundamental theoretical reference is the speech “On the Arts” by Menotti Lerro and Antonello Pelliccia (2019) defined as “New Manifesto on the Arts” by the well known philosopher Remo Bodei, for the approach with which principles and objectives are deposited aimed at raising the status of Art and affirming the indivisibility of its different expressions.
“The anthology Italian Empathetic Poets – as stated by Mauro Afro Borella of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin – is the consecration of the innovative Movement of Contemporaneity”.
The meeting, introduced by Rosa Giulio of the University of Salerno, will see the interventions of Alberto Granese (University of Salerno) and Eleonora Rimolo (University of Molise). The curator of the anthology Menotti Lerro will conclude.
The anthologized poets are:
Franco Arminio, Alberto Bertoni, Corrado Calabrò, Roberto Carifi, Emilio Coco, Maurizio Cucchi, Massimo Dagnino, Milo De Angelis, Gabriela Fantato, Giovanna Frene, Mario Fresa, Sandro Gros-Pietro, Vincenzo Guarracino, Tomaso Kemeny, Vivian Lamarque, Lucrezia Lerro, Menotti Lerro, Franco Loi, Dacia Maraini, Valeria Magrelli, Giampiero Neri, Elio Pecora, Giancarlo Pontiggia, Davide Rondoni, Ottavio Rossani, Tiziano Rossi, Mario Santagostini, Gabriella Sica, Luigia Sorrentino, Rossella Tempesta, Enrico Testa, Gian Mario Villalta, Lello Voce.
Albo signanda lapillo dies.
The Nobel Prize for Literature, Jon Fosse, sent his “Best wishes” for the publication of the anthology Poeti Empatici Italiani (Empathic Italian Poets), 2025.
