The Corrente movement did not come about from the promulgation of a manifesto. The fullest expression of the poetics of the group was entrusted to the magazine “Corrente di Vita Giovanile”, later simply “Corrente”, founded in Milan in 1938 by seventeen-year-old Ernesto Treccani. Within just two years of its publication it had become the cultural training ground of the intellectuals who were to dominate the Italian scene of the post-war period.
