Il Borghese

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Il Borghese
Former editors
Categories
  • Political magazine
  • Cultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founder Leo Longanesi
Founded1950
Country Italy
Based in Rome
Language Italian
Website Il Borghese
ISSN 0006-775X
OCLC 2794902

Il Borghese is a monthly cultural and political magazine with a right-wing stance published in Rome, Italy. The magazine has been in circulation since 1950 [1] and is named after the conservative Borghese family. [2] and published until 1993. The newspaper has resumed publication several times for short periods. Since 2007 it has been published by the publishing house Pagine.

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History and profile

Il Borghese was established by Leo Longanesi in 1950. [3] [4] He founded other magazines such as L’Italiano and Omnibus . [3] Il Borghese is published weekly and has a right-wing and conservative stance. [4] [2]

Leo Longanesi and Indro Montanelli were the early co-editors of Il Borghese. [5] The former held the post until his death in 1957. [6] The other early contributors include Giovanni Ansaldo, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Giovanni Spadolini, Mario Tedeschi, Alberto Savinio, Ennio Flaiano, Colette Rosselli, Irene Brin, Goffredo Parise and Mario Missiroli. [7]

In the 1950s the magazine was close to Christian Democracy Party. [8] However, its support ended when Longanesi argued that the party was too weak to counter the "communist threat". [8] Il Borghese was closed down in 2001. [9] It was relaunched in Rome in December 2012. [9]

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  10. Nel 1972 Mario Tedeschi fu eletto al Parlamento. La legge italiana sulla stampa (legge n. 47/1948) prevede che, "quando il direttore [di una testata giornalistica] sia investito di mandato parlamentare, deve essere nominato un vice direttore, che assume la qualità di responsabile" (art. 3).
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