Orpheus (magazine)
Orpheus was a modernist monthly little 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 the Fascist Italy.
Editor-in-chief |
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Categories | Modernist literary magazine |
Frequency | Monthly |
First issue | December 1932 |
Final issue | January–March 1934 |
Country | Kingdom of Italy |
Based in | Milan |
Language | Italian |
History and profile
Orpheus was started in Milan in 1932, and its first issue appeared in December that year.[1] The magazine came out 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 bookstores, 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
- "Dialectics of Modernity". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Regalarte. a cura di Nicola Rotiroti". MeloBox (in Italian). 8 December 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2023.