1963

From 3rd to 8th October, 1963, the meeting of a group of about thirty writers at Hotel Zagarella in Palermo left its mark on the literary debate in Italy at the time. (The group was known as "Group '63). The first sign of the existence of this group had come from the anthology I Novissimi (1961) edited by Alfredo Giuliani for the series "Verri". (Above, left): Elio Pagliarini, Vanni Scheiwiller, Umberto Eco, Nanni Balestrini, Edoardo Sanguineti, Alfredo Giuliani. (Above, right) Announcement of the publication of Capriccio italiano by Sanguineti.

(Below, left to right) Giorgio Manganelli with the Publisher; Alberto Arbasino, whose novel Fratelli d'Italia, opening onto the next thirty years, was published in 1963; Luigi Meneghello (Libera nos a malo).
Venice Biennial, 1964. From the left, to the forefront: Elio Pagliarini, Furio Colombo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Carla Vasio and Inge Feltrinelli. Behind them: one of Pirandello's grandaughters, Antonio Porta, Nanni Balestrini and Enrico Filippini.

Of course the Publishing House became a point of reference for the "Group '63" In 1964, edited by Nanni Balestrini and Alfredo Giuliani, the volume Gruppo 63. La nuova letteratura. 34 scrittori, Palermo ottobre 1963 was published.




Feltrinelli published and was still to publish many authors who were part of the "Group '63": Albert Arbasino (L'Anonimo Lombardo, 1959; Parigi o cara, 1961;Fratelli d'Italia, 1963; La narcista, la controra, 1964), Nanni Balestrini (Come si agisce, 1963),Oreste del Buono (L'amore senza storie, 1958; Un intero minuto, 1959; Per pura ingratitudine, 1961; Facile da usare, 1962; Niente per amore, 1962), Francesco Leonetti (Conoscenza per errore, 1961), Germano Lombardi (Barcelona 1963), Franco Lucentini (Notizie degli scavi, 1964), Giorgio Manganelli, (Hilarotragoedia, 1964), Giancarlo Marmori (Lo sproloquio, 1963) Edoardo Sanguineti (Capriccio italiano, 1963; Tripeuno, 1964), Gillo Dorfles (Ultime tendenze nell'arte d'oggi. Dall'informale al Concettuale, 1961).

"Il Verri", the literary review founded by Luciano Anceschi in Milan, in 1965, now passed into the hands of Feltrinelli, who also published "Africano riluttante" (a single issue) in the same year together with "Il filo rosso", a political and cultural monthly review conceived and edited by Gian Piero Brega with Gian Franco Vené, Guide D. Neri and Massimo Calderazzi (11 issues). New authors included. Carlo Alianello (L'eredità della Priora and L'alfiere, 1964) and Franco Fornari (La vita affettiva originaria del bambino). Bandiera bianca a Cefalonia was also published. A new series "Storia della musica" was launched.

Three new Feltrinelli Bookshops were opened: in Florence, in Milan and in Bologna. Four new series appeared:"I fatti e le idee. Saggi e biografie", a compact and orderly presentation of non-fiction; "Collana di matematica", edited by Lucio Lombardo Radice; "Critica e filologia" and "Collana di aggiornamento e didassi", edited by Libera Venturini.
Trentesimo anno by Ingeborg Bachmann and Studi su Dante by Erich Auerbach  were published. A classic in the field of Philosophy was another publication worthy of note, the lessons on Estetica, by Hegel, the first Italian edition was edited by Nicolao Merker and translated by him together with Nicola Vaccaro.