Sensibili alle foglie

Sensibili alle foglie (English: Sensitive to Pages^{[lower-alpha 1]}) is a publishing co-operative.

The group was founded by Renato Curcio in 1990, after meeting with Stefano Petrelli and Nicola Valentino [it] in prison. All three men were imprisoned members of the Red Brigades militant group (Curcio was the leader of the group).^[2][3]

The publishing house dealt with themes of criminality, and the history of Italian terrorism. They had a specific focus on publishing content from migrant writers in prison on controversial topics. Sensibili alle foglie published Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque's 1994 autobiography Princesa, which deals with her identity as a Brazilian migrant trans woman as well as a sex worker.^[4] Hassan Itab's La tana della iena (1991; "The Hyena's Den"), which was an autobiography of his life as a Palestinian militant integrating into Italian society.^[4][5] The co-operative also worked with social campaigner Don Luigi Di Liegro [it] and published his work on migration.^[4]

References

1. An Italian play on words; foglie meaning leaves or pages and follie meaning folly or madness^[1]

1. Marxen, Eva (23 April 2020). Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum: Practicing And Theorizing Critical Art Therapy With Adolescents. Routledge. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-351-11664-0.
2. Galeotti, Carlo (21 August 1994). ""Sensibili alle foglie" e al dolore quotidiano" ['Sensitive to pages' and daily pain]. Tusciaweb.eu (in Italian). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
3. Carozzi, Ivan (2 March 2023). "Renato Curcio, P38—La Gang e gli anni di piombo come eterno presente" [Renato Curcio, P38—The Gang and the years of lead as an eternal present]. Esquire (in Italian). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
4. Parati, Graziella (31 December 2013). Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture. University of Toronto Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-4426-2008-7.
5. Romeo, Caterina (17 January 2023). Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature. Springer Nature. p. 27. ISBN 978-3-031-10043-7.