L'ATTIVITÀ CRITICO-EDITORIALE DI SERGIO ANTONIELLI

My study reconstructs the intellectual profile of Sergio Antonielli, writer, critic and professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Milan in the second half of twentieth century. My research consisted of analysis of essays, articles and monographs dedicated to Italian contemporary writers and examination of unpublished documents kept at “Apice” (Archives of the Word, Image and Editorial Communication), and at the “Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation”: a rich correspondence with influential figures of italian literature, notes for lectures and speeches, reading opinions written for Mondadori and Editori Riuniti. Through the work of Sergio Antonielli, it is possible to retrace critical dynamics of the twentieth century (Ermetismo and post-Ermetismo, Realism and neo-realism), creative phases of some poets (Eugenio Montale, Vittorio Sereni, Andrea Zanzotto, Mario Luzi) and processes of the publishing companies in the second half of twentieth century.