Neri Pozza

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Monument to Neri Pozza by Nereo Quagliato, 2012
Contrà Pescaria
Vicenza, May 2025

“Neri Pozza (Vicenza, 5 August 1912 – Vicenza, 6 November 1988) was an Italian partisan, writer and publisher. He was also an artist, engraver and collector of contemporary art. He was born and lived in Vicenza, a city to which he dedicated all his activity. He attended the Pigafetta classical high school in Vicenza, but did not complete his studies; his father was a sculptor and Neri approached sculpture, which he soon abandoned for poetry. Active in the Vicenza Resistance, he wrote the book ‘La prigione’ from this experience in the 1960s. In 1941 he founded the publishing house Il Pellicano, under the banner of a vivifying cultural renewal; an intent made evident in the logo, which features a pelican feeding its dying children with its own blood. After the war period he committed himself to what would be the project of his life: Neri Pozza Editore, for which the first title was published in 1946: ‘Paludi’ by André Gide. In 1950 he published the anthology ‘In quel preciso momento’ by Dino Buzzati. In 1951 he published the first novel by Goffredo Parise (also from Vicenza), ‘Il ragazzo morto e le comete’. The growth path of the publishing house continued with collaborations with Vincenzo Cardarelli, Eugenio Montale, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Mario Luzi.” (Neri Pozza, Wikipedia)