MAURO FERRARI was born (1959) in Novi Ligure (AL), where he resides. He is a high-school professor of English and the editorial director of the 'Joker' publishing house, as well as chief editor of the literary quarterly La Clessidra. His published collections of poetry include: Forme (Torino: Genesi, 1989) and Al fondo delle cose (Novi Ligure: Joker, 1996). Mauro Ferrari is also an author of short stories (in the collective volume, Storie di Novi, Novi Ligure: Joker, 1994).

MICHELANGELO ZIZZI was born (1966) in Martina Franca (Taranto), where he resides. He is a "dottorando di ricerca" at the University of Lecce, and has published poems in journals and anthologies. Michelangelo Zizzi is about to publish a critical monograph, Per una geografia della semantica in Vittorio Bodini attraverso la lingua, (Bari: Levante Editore).

MILO DE ANGELIS is founder and editor of the journal Niebo (1977-1979); translator from French and Latin. He has published the following collections of poems: Somiglianze (Parma: Guanda, 1976, 1990), Millimetri (Torino: Einaudi, 1983), Terra del viso (Milano: Mondadori, 1985), Distante un padre (Milano: Mondadori, 1989).Milo De Angelis's new collection of poems, Biografia sommaria, is forthcoming in the series Almanacco dello specchio (Milano: Mondadori, 1999).

PAUL COLILLI teaches Italian Studies at Laurentian University. He is the author of books on Petrarch, Poliziano and Hermetic thought. In 1997 the University of Toronto Press published his The Idea of a Living Spirit: Poetic Logic as a Contemporary Theory. "Theses on the Corpse of Poetry" is taken from a forthcoming book entitled Lyric Philosophy for Everybody.

ROSITA COPIOLI lives in Rimini. She has published the following collections of poems: Splendida lumina solis (Forlì, Forum, 1979); Furore delle rose (Parma, Guanda, 1989); Elena (Parma, Guanda, 1996). Among her prose writings: I giardini dei popoli sotto le onde (Parma, Guanda, 1991); Il fuoco dell'Eden (Siracusa, Tema celeste, 1992).

MAURA DEL SERRA teaches Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Florence. She has published the following collections of poems: L'Arco (1978); La gloria oscura (1982); Concordanze (1985); Meridiana (1987); Infinito presente (1992); Sostanze (1992); L'età che non dà ombra (Firenze: Le lettere, 1997) and the anthology Corale: 100 poesie scelte dall'autrice, with an introduction by Giorgio Barberi Squàrotti, (Roma: Newton Compton, 1994). Just published Agnodice: commedia drammatica (Firenze: Le Lettere, 1998).

EUGENIO MAZZARELLA teaches Philosophy at the University Federico II of Naples. His works include Ermeneutica dell'effettività: prospettive antiche dell'ontologia heideggeriana (Napoli: Guida, 1993); Filosofia e teologia di fronte a Cristo (Napoli: Cronopio, 1996); Storia metafisica ontologia: per una storia della metafisica tra Otto e Novecento (Napoli: Morano, 1987); Tecnica e metafisica: saggio su Heidegger (Napoli: Guida, 1981).

MARIO MORONI is a poet and a literary critic: his monographic work on Antonio Porta, Essere e fare. L'itinerario poetico di Antonio Porta (Rimini: Luisè Editore, 1991), shortly preceeded his book of poems Paesaggi oltre (Verona: Edizioni Anterem, 1991), which received the "L. Montano" Poetry Award. His new collection of poems, Le terre di Icaro, is forthcoming. Just published his last book, La presenza complessa. Identità e soggettività nelle poetiche del Novecento (Ravenna, Longo, 1998).

ERNESTO LIVORNI, poet and literary critic, is the editor of L'ANELLO CHE NON TIENE: JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE. Just published the book Avanguardia e tradizione. Ezra Pound e Giuseppe Ungaretti (Firenze: Le Lettere, 1998); the book of poems Nel libro che ti diedi. Sonetti (Udine: Camponotto, 1998).

CESARE RUFFATO: Born (1924) in Padova. Phisician and university professor has written essays and critical monographs. His poetry collections include: Tempo senza nome (Padova: Rebellato, 1960); La nave per Atene (Milano: Scheiwiller, 1962); Il vanitoso pianeta (Caltanissetta: Sciascia, 1965); Cuorema (Padova: Rebellato, 1969); Caro ibrido amore (Bari: La Caita, 1974); Minusgrafie (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1978); Poesia trasfigurata (Udine: Companotto, 1982); Proposizione ellittica (Torino: L'Arzanˆ, 1982); Parola bambola (Venezia: Marsilio, 1983); Trasparenze luminose (Milano: Società di Poesia, 1987); Floema della pietra (Padova: Panda, 1988); Padova diletta (Padova: Panda, 1988); Prima durante dopo (Venezia: Marsilio, 1989); Parola pirola (Padova: Biblioteca Cominiana, 1990); El Gabo (Padova: Biblioteca Cominiana, 1991); I Boceto (Udine: Camponotto, 1992); Diaboleria (Ravenna: Longo, 1993); Lo sguardo sul testo (Udine: Campanotto, 1995); Etica decliva (Lecci: Manni, 1996); Poesie scelte [antologia in croato con testo a fronte] (Zagabria: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1996); Selected poems [antologia in inglese con testo a fronte] (New York: Gradiva Pubblicazioni, 1996). Special issues on Cesare Ruffato have been published by the journals: LA BATTANA, n. 3 (1997); STEVE, supplement to n. 15 (1997). Just published: Francesco Muzzioli, La poesia di Cesare Ruffato (Ravenna: Longo, 1998).

GRAZIELLA SIDOLI: She is currently Kastendick Fellow for the Humanities at the Poly Prep Country Day School in New York, and is organizing a symposium to be held there in January 1999 on the theme: "The silences Modernism: Women Artists of the First Avangards".

PAOLO VALESIO: The latest issue of the literary journal STEVE, edited in Modena by the poet Carlo Alberto Sitta, presents some pages from Paolo Valesio's L'uomo che perse una Pasqua, a still unpublished novelistic and spiritual journal in progress begun in 1987, which currently runs to 2910 pages.

DANIELA GIOSEFFI: Poet, novelist and literary critic. Her latest book is: On Prejudice: a Global Perspective, Anchor Doubleday, 1993. She published a novel, The Great America Belly, (Doubleday/Dell, NY and New English Library, 1990), and a collection of stories, In Bed with the Exotic Enemy (Greensboro, NC: Avisson Press, 1997).

STEFANO LANUZZA's publications include: Alberto Savinio (Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1979); L'apprendista sciamano: poesia italiana degli anni Settanta, un saggio introduttivo con i confronti antologici da G. Barberi Squarotti [et al.] (Messina;Firenze: G. D'Anna, 1979); Bestiario del nihilismo: scrittura e animali (Castel Maggiore: Book Editore, 1993); Lo sparviero sul pugno: guida ai poeti italiani degli anni Ottanta, (Milano: Spirali, 1987).