Botteghe Oscure

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Botteghe Oscure
Categories literary journal
FounderMarguerite Caetani
Founded1948
Final issue1960
Country Italy
Based in Rome
LanguageItalian, French, English, German, Spanish
OCLC 1536926

Botteghe Oscure was a literary journal that was founded and edited in Rome by Marguerite Caetani (Princess di Bassiano) from 1948 to 1960.

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History and profile

Botteghe Oscure was established in 1948. [1] [2] The magazine was named after Rome’s via delle Botteghe Oscure (Latin: Ad Apothecas Obscuras), where the editorial office was located; [1] during the Middle Ages the street's "dark shops" came to be installed under the dark arches of the Circus Flaminius.

The review was published twice a year with poetry and prose in five languages (Italian, French and English, and alternating issues featuring German and Spanish-language segments. It was distributed in the United States through Farrar, Straus & Young and the Gotham Book Mart. [3]

Giorgio Bassani was an editor. [4] Later Eugene Walter moved from Paris to Rome to edit the magazine for Caetani. [2] The publication of the magazine ended in 1960. [1] [2]

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In 1951 the journal published the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. [5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Helen Barolini. "The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops". VQR. No. Spring 1998. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Lorenzo M. Salvagni (2013). In the Garden of Letters: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review Botteghe Oscure (PhD thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. doi:10.17615/qxd3-0x37.
  3. ↑ Bogan, Louise. (19 September 1953)."Books" The New Yorker
  4. ↑ Karl Ludwig Selig (September 1956). "The Cultural Periodicals in Italy, 1945-1950". Italica. 33 (3): 211. JSTOR   477345.
  5. ↑ Ferris, Paul (1989). Dylan Thomas. New York: Paragon House Publishers. p. 283. ISBN   9781557782151. OCLC   18560227.
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