Campo di Marte (magazine)

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Campo di Marte
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Founder
First issueAugust 1938
Final issueAugust 1939
Country Italy
Based in Florence
Language Italian

Campo di Marte (Italian: Field of Mars) was a literary magazine published briefly from 1938 to 1939 in Florence, Italy.

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History and profile

Campo di Marte was established by Vasco Pratolini and Alfonso Gatto in August 1938. [1] [2] They also edited the magazine, [1] which had its headquarters in Florence. [1] [3]

Campo di Marte declared its goal as "to educate the people" about the arts. [1] It had a sceptical approach towards the European avant-garde and modernist experience as well as to mass culture. [4] The magazine had an anti-fascist political leaning. [5] It openly questioned several aspects of the fascist regime in Italy. [4] It was subjected to censorship [4] and closed down by the regime in August 1939 [2] [6] after only twelve issues. [5]

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