Crocetti Editore

Crocetti Editore is an Italian independent publishing house founded in 1981 by the Greek scholar and translator Nicola Crocetti. Based in Milan, it is one of the most distinctive poetry-focused publishers in Italy, with a catalogue built around poetry and Modern Greek literature — a deliberate homage to the origins of its founder, a Hellenist and translator. The house is known for publishing poetry with the original text facing the Italian translation, a format that has become a signature of its editions. Over nearly four decades of activity, Crocetti has published Italian and foreign poets including Nobel laureates Ghiorgos Seferis, Odisseas Elitis, Saint-John Perse, Derek Walcott and Tomas Tranströmer. Its catalogue also features Emily Dickinson, Antonio Machado, Walt Whitman, Ghiannis Ritsos, Costantino Kavafis, Louis Aragon, Kahlil Gibran, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Valéry, Simone Weil, Yehuda Amichai, Anne Sexton, Manolis Anaghnostakis, Adrienne Rich, Jaime Saenz, Carol Ann Duffy and Thomas Bernhard. Italian authors in the catalogue include Alda Merini, Franco Loi, Antonella Anedda, Giovanni Raboni, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Antonio Porta, Cesare Viviani, Milo De Angelis, Aldo Nove, Giorgio Manganelli, Mariangela Gualtieri, Maria Grazia Calandrone and Pierluigi Cappello. The house has also issued collective volumes such as anthologies of Basque, Swedish, Russian, Greek and German-Swiss poetry. Beyond single-author works, Crocetti has extended its activity into theatre and music-adjacent publishing. Several volumes have been adapted into stage performances by prominent Italian actors, including dramatic monologues by Ghiannis Ritsos performed by Moni Ovadia, Paolo Rossi, Anna Bonaiuto, Elisabetta Vergani, Isabella Ragonese, Luigi Lo Cascio and Elisabetta Pozzi. In 1995 the poetry series were joined by the Modern Greek prose series "Aristea". The publisher has also released poetry on CD in the series Voci della poesia contemporanea, in collaboration with the Centro Internazionale Eugenio Montale. Since January 1988 Crocetti has published the international monthly review Poesia, directed by Nicola Crocetti, with a circulation reported at around twenty thousand copies. The review has since moved into digital form, with subscription launch promotions and a free sample issue offered in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world. The publisher continues to release new poetry and narrative titles, including works by Simon Armitage, Alejandra Pizarnik, Eztizen Artola Iturrate and Malcolm Lowry, and to promote its catalogue through initiatives such as the annual catalogue and the "Poesia del giorno" feature.

Crocetti Editore was founded in 1981 by Nicola Crocetti, a Greek scholar and translator. From the outset the house specialised in poetry and in Modern Greek literature, a choice that paid homage to the origins of its founder. Early activity concentrated on contemporary Greek poets, published with the original-language text facing the Italian translation, and the catalogue also came to include classical authors. Among the contemporary poets published by Crocetti are the Greek poet Odysseus Elytis, Nobel laureate in literature in 1979 (Axion Esti), and Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate in 1982. Over nearly four decades the house has published numerous Italian and foreign poets, including Nobel laureates Ghiorgos Seferis, Odisseas Elitis, Saint-John Perse, Derek Walcott and Tomas Tranströmer, as well as Emily Dickinson, Antonio Machado, Walt Whitman, Ghiannis Ritsos, Costantino Kavafis, Louis Aragon, Kahlil Gibran, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Valéry, Simone Weil, Yehuda Amichai, Anne Sexton, Manolis Anaghnostakis, Adrienne Rich, Jaime Saenz, Carol Ann Duffy and Thomas Bernhard. Almost all volumes are published with the original text facing the translation. Italian authors in the catalogue include Alda Merini, Franco Loi, Antonella Anedda, Giovanni Raboni, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Antonio Porta, Cesare Viviani, Milo De Angelis, Aldo Nove, Giorgio Manganelli, Mariangela Gualtieri, Maria Grazia Calandrone and Pierluigi Cappello. In addition to single-author works, Crocetti has published collective volumes such as anthologies of Basque, Swedish, Russian, Greek and German-Swiss poetry. The publisher's series are named after forms of Greek pottery: Lèkythos, Aryballos, Alabastron, Kylix and Pyxis for poetry, while other series include Delos, Ephèmeris, Saggi, Omicron (an economical series), Eidolon, Anthologia and Neòteroi (New Poets); for prose, Aristea, Cosmos and Esperia. In 1995 the poetry series were joined by the Modern Greek prose series Aristea. The house also publishes poetry texts on CD in the Voci della poesia contemporanea series, in collaboration with the Centro Internazionale Eugenio Montale. Since January 1988 Crocetti has published an international monthly review titled Poesia (subtitled in Italian as a monthly international review of culture and poetry), directed by Nicola Crocetti, with a circulation reported at twenty thousand copies. The review has since been extended into digital form, with subscription launch promotions and a free sample issue available in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world. Several volumes published by Crocetti have been adapted into theatrical performances by important Italian actors. Examples include dramatic monologues by Ghiannis Ritsos brought to the stage by, among others, Moni Ovadia, Paolo Rossi, Anna Bonaiuto, Elisabetta Vergani, Isabella Ragonese, Luigi Lo Cascio and Elisabetta Pozzi. The publisher continues to release new poetry and narrative titles and to promote its catalogue through initiatives such as the annual catalogue and the daily poetry feature.

• 1995

  The Modern Greek prose series Aristea is added to the poetry series.

• 1988

  The international monthly review Poesia begins publication in January, directed by Nicola Crocetti.

• 1981

  Crocetti Editore is founded by Nicola Crocetti.

Independent, poetry-first Italian publisher with a strong Modern Greek and bilingual-edition identity, combining a literary catalogue with an international poetry magazine.

• Poesia (monthly international review)

  International monthly review of culture and poetry published since January 1988, directed by Nicola Crocetti, with a reported circulation of twenty thousand copies; now also available digitally.

• Poetry series Lèkythos, Aryballos, Alabastron, Kylix, Pyxis

  Poetry series named after forms of Greek pottery.

• Aristea

  Modern Greek prose series added in 1995.

• Voci della poesia contemporanea

  CD series of poetry texts published in collaboration with the Centro Internazionale Eugenio Montale.

• Other series: Delos, Ephèmeris, Saggi, Omicron, Eidolon, Anthologia, Neòteroi, Cosmos, Esperia

  Additional poetry, essay, economical and prose series in the catalogue.

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