Il Frontespizio

Il Frontespizio

Cover of a 1939 issue of Il Frontespizio.
Categories	Literary magazine
Founder	Enrico Lucatello Piero Bargellini
Founded	May 1929
Final issue	December 1940
Country	Kingdom of Italy
Based in	Florence
Language	Italian

Il Frontespizio (Italian : The Frontispiece) was an art and literary magazine, which had a Catholic perspective. The magazine existed between 1929 and 1940 and was based in Florence, Italy.

History and profile

Il Frontespizio was first published in May 1929. ^[1] The founders were Enrico Lucatello and Piero Bargellini. ^[2] Giovanni Papini was also instrumental in the establishment of the magazine. ^[3] The headquarters of Il Frontespizio was in Florence. ^{[4] [5]} From August 1929 the magazine became monthly, but it rarely published double issues. ^[1] Vallecchi was the publisher of the magazine from July 1930 to its closure in 1940. ^[4]

The founding editor was Enrico Lucatello, who was succeeded by Piero Bargellini in the post. ^[6] Giuseppe de Luca, a Catholic priest, was among the regular contributors and served as the editor of Il Frontespizio. ^{[4] [7]} Although it targeted Catholic intellectuals, who had been alienated from public life since the Unification of Italy in 1861, ^[4] the goal of the magazine was not to disseminate Catholic art. ^[1] Instead, it aimed at being an alternative to avant-gardism and fascist culture in Italy. ^[4] In addition, Il Frontespizio adopted an anti-Semitic approach. ^[8] The magazine introduced the Hermetic poetry in Italy ^[4] through the work by Carlo Bo, a literary critic, Mario Luzi and Piero Bigongiari. ^[9] The magazine also covered the work by Italian sculptors, including Bartolini, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, De Pisis, Mino Maccari, Manzu, Giorgio Morandi, Ottone Rosai, Semeghini, Severini, Soffici, and Lorenzo Viani. ^[10]

Il Frontespizio was the recipient of the best graphic work award at the Milan Triennale in 1935. ^[4] The magazine ended publication in December 1940. ^{[1] [5] [10]}

References

1. "Il Frontespizio" (in Italian). CIRCE. Catalogo Informatico Riviste Culturali Europee. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
2. Ernesto Livorni (2016). "The Giubee Rosse Café in Florence: A literary and political alcove from futurism to anti-Fascist resistance". In Leona Rittner; et al. (eds.). The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna. London; New York: Routledge. p. 190. ISBN   978-1-317-01414-0.
3. Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2010). The A to Z of Modern Italy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 315. ISBN   978-1-4616-7202-9.
4. Mariana Aguirre (2009). "The Return to Order in Florence: Il Selvaggio (1924-43), Il Frontespizio (1929-40), Pègaso (1929-33), Campo di Marte (1938-9)". In Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 491. ISBN   978-0-19-965958-6.
5. "Frontespizio, Il". Treccani (in Italian).
6. Elia Celestina Della Chiesa (8 February 2007). "An interview with Antonina Bargellini". The Florentine. No. 49. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
7. Alessandra Tarquini (October 2005). "The Anti-Gentilians during the Fascist Regime". Journal of Contemporary History . 40 (4): 651. doi:10.1177/0022009405056122. S2CID   143453936.
8. Lynn M. Gunzberg (1992). Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination . Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. p.  244. ISBN   978-0-520-91258-8.
9. Maria Belén Hernández-González (2016). "The Construction of the Memory of Italy in Argentina through a Choice of Translated Essays". CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language. 1 (1). doi:10.21427/D7V88R.
10. "Il Frontespizio, rivista mensile - 1929-1940 Tutto il pubblicato". Ferraguti (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2017.