Il Selvaggio

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Il Selvaggio
Editor-in-chief Mino Maccari
Former editorsAngelo Bencini
Categories
  • Arts magazine
  • Political magazine
Frequency
  • Bimonthly
  • Weekly
  • Irregular
Founder
Founded1924
First issue13 July 1924
Final issueJune 1943
Country Italy
Based in
Language Italian
ISSN 2420-9376
OCLC 173994792

Il Selvaggio (Italian: the Savage or the Wild One) was a political and arts magazine that existed between 1924 and 1943. It was a media outlet of an intellectual group called Strapaese (Italian: Supervillage). [1]

History and profile

Il Selvaggio was founded by Angelo Bencini and Mino Maccari, an Italian fascist artist and journalist, in Colle di Val d'Elsa in 1924 as a political magazine. [2] [3] The first issue of the bimonthly magazine was published on 13 July 1924. [4] [5] The founding director was Angiolo Bencini who held the post until 1926 when Mino Maccari succeeded him. [2] The latter also edited the magazine. [6] [7] It featured articles on art, politics and humor. [5]

The format of the magazine was 50x35 cm, but was changed to 44x32 cm. [4] It had a variable number of pages ranging from four to twelve pages. [4] From 1926 Il Selvaggio was headquartered in Florence. [4] The same year the Fascist government forced the magazine to include cultural and satirical materials, thus making clear its goal to promote a version of an anti-intellectual version of arts. [8] Then the magazine focused on the core of the Italian spirit observed "in the cradle of Italian civilization, namely the hills and countryside of Tuscany". [8] In this period it came out weekly and acted as a representative of Tuscan rural extremism. [9]

The editorial offices of Il Selvaggio moved to Siena in 1929 and then to Turin in 1930. [10] In 1932 its headquarters moved to Rome. [10] The frequency of the magazine was also frequently changed but was mostly published irregularly. [2] Leo Longanesi, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carrà, Cafiero Tuti, Mario Tinti, Manlio Malabotta, Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra, Giuseppe Pensabene and Ottone Rosai were among the leading contributors of the magazine. [4] In 1932 Soffici published articles on his experience in Paris in the early years of the 20th century in the magazine. [11] Over time Il Selvaggio focused on artistic subjects, including architectural topics, instead of political topics. [4] The last issue of the magazine appeared in June 1943. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2001). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0520242166.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Il Selvaggio" (in Italian). Circe. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  3. ↑ Lynn M. Gunzberg (Summer 1983). "Ruralism, Folklore, and Grazia Deledda's Novels". Modern Language Studies. 13 (3): 116. doi:10.2307/3194185. JSTOR   3194185.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Michela Rosso (2016). "Il Selvaggio 1926–1942: Architectural Polemics and Invective Imagery". Architectural Histories . 4 (1): 1. doi: 10.5334/ah.203 .
  5. 1 2 Alessandra Aquilanti (2015). Humor in Fascist Italy (PhD thesis). Stanford University. pp. 166–168. ISBN   9798662565203. ProQuest   2501173396.
  6. ↑ Francesca Billiani; Laura Pennacchietti (2019). Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 21. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4. ISBN   978-3-030-19427-7. S2CID   158649280.
  7. ↑ Peter Davies; Derek Lynch, eds. (2002). The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right . London; New York. p.  222. ISBN   978-0-203-99472-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. 1 2 Valerio C. Ferme (Summer 1998). "Redefining the Aesthetics of Fascism: The battle Between the Ancients and the Moderns Revisited". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 52 (2): 74. doi:10.1080/00397709809598260.
  9. ↑ Luca de Caprariis (1998). Fascism and Italian foreign policy: 1922-1928 (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 113. ISBN   978-0-591-87923-0. ProQuest   304457056.
  10. 1 2 "Il Selvaggio" (in Italian). Riviste Scuola Romana. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  11. ↑ Flora Ghezzo (January 2010). "Topographies of Disease and Desire: Mapping the City in Fascist Italy". Modern Language Notes . 125 (1): 205. doi:10.1353/mln.0.0227. S2CID   161623497.
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