Orpheus
Editor-in-chief
CategoriesModernist literary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
First issueDecember 1932
Final issueJanuary–March 1934
CountryKingdom of Italy
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian

Orpheus was a modernist monthly journal in Milan, Italy, between 1932 and 1934. Although it was a short-lived periodical, it significantly contributed to the intellectual debate took place in Fascist Italy.

History and profile

Orpheus was started in Milan in 1932, and its first issue appeared in December that year.[1] The magazine was published monthly.[2] Its editors were Luciano Anceschi and Enzo Paci.[3] Orpheus had a radical and avant-garde approach and covered high cultural matters.[3] Drawings by Pino Ponti were featured in the magazine from 1933.[4] Its target audience was university students and youth living in Milan.[3]

Orpheus was regularly distributed to book stores, but had less than fifty subscribers.[2] The magazine had a correspondent in Berlin, Grete Aberle, from its second issue.[3] The final issue of the magazine is dated January–March 1934.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dialectics of Modernity". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  2. 1 2 Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2004). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-520-24216-6.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Francesca Billiani (July 2013). "Return to order as return to realism in two Italian elite literary magazines of the 1920s and 1930s: La Ronda and Orpheus". Modern Language Review. 108 (3): 841,844,847–848. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.
  4. ↑ "Regalarte. a cura di Nicola Rotiroti". MeloBox (in Italian). 8 December 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
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