JUVENILIA

Nulla dies sine linea

Poetry and literary paths review

Founded and directed by Luigi Caricato, "Juvenilia" debuted in public on February 1988, soundly supported by the medievalist Pietro Conte.

Among the several authors who contributed to the creation of the "history" of this lucid testimony of contemporary poetry, we can find names such as: Giampiero Neri, Maurizio Cucchi, Giovanni Giudici, Roberto Mussapi, Carlo Villa, Enzo Di Mauro, Giorgio Soavi, Pedro Casariego Cordoba, Vivian Lamarque, Fortunato Pasqualino, Elvira Battaini, Donatella Bisutti, Augusta Naibo, Luciano Erba, Franco Buffoni, Gualberto Gualerni, Elio Fiore, Henri Brugmans, David Maria Turoldo, Domenico Cara, Angelo Lorenzo Crespi...

The conclusive issue of this literary path is number seventeen of the series and it is dated May 1996.

Besides the publication of new poetry texts, "Juvenilia" editorial staff directed by Luigi Caricato organized several meetings and cultural events at Università Cattolica and in some of the most significant literary centers, salons and cafes in Milan.

It's finally of great interest the proceedings publication of the meeting "Poesia Anni Novanta: orizzonti e prospettive" (The poetry of the nineties: horizons and prospects - Edizioni Isu-Università Cattolica, Milan 1990).

<<The birth of "Juvenilia" at Università Cattolica may be meant as the ideal wish of rejoining or supporting a tradition that even in most recent years has shown itself in there. An event demonstrated by the presence of poets such as the first and most severe David Maria Turoldo, very punctually sustained by Giuseppe Ungaretti. Or nowadays, it's remarkable the prestigious presence of Luciano Erba, one of the major Italian poets and definitely the leading exponent of that Linea Lombarda theory.

"Juvenilia" is therefore the product of an experienced, praised environment whose implications are still unknown, but its results are clearly visible here.

With "Juvenilia" I have the impression that some kind of non-declared but maybe existing alliance is being formed, between some formal restoration works of contemporary poetry and some kind of support of the academic world, that is somehow inclined to underline a return to tradition.

It seems to me that such an easy, young and I would also say free in style review, as to the academic structure, takes its place among the university and literary world like a sound dialectic pole>>.

(From a note published on "Juvenilia", number 5, May 1989, from a speech at Portnoy literary cafe, on the 13th of March 1989)