La Ronda (magazine)

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La Ronda
La Ronda.jpg
Cover of the first issue dated April 1919
Editor-in-chief Vincenzo Cardarelli
Categories Literary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderLorenzo Montano
First issue23 April 1919
Final issueDecember 1923
Country Kingdom of Italy
Based in Rome
Language Italian

La Ronda (Italian : The Round) was a literary magazine which existed in Rome, Kingdom of Italy, between April 1919 and November 1922. In December 1923 a special issue was also published.

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History and profile

La Ronda was first published on 23 April 1919. [1] It was founded by the poet and writer Lorenzo Montano. [2] The magazine came out monthly and was headquartered in Rome. [3] It was modeled on the Bologna-based magazine La Raccolta . [4]

Vincenzo Cardarelli, Aurelio E. Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Antonio Baldini, Bruno Barilli, Emilio Cecchi and Lorenzo Montano were the members of its editorial board in the first year. [5] From the second year only Cardarelli and Saffi continued to serve in the post. [1] In addition, Cardarelli was the editor-in-chief of La Ronda. [1] Following the closure of La Raccolta in February 1919 its editor Giuseppe Raimondi joined La Ronda as its secretary which he held for a while. [6]

The aim of La Ronda was to reinforce a modernist literary approach supporting the values of literature understood as a style. [1] [3] In the first editorial Cardarelli argued that it was time to focus on the Italian modernism which had delayed due to World War I. [7] The magazine managed to develop a literary movement which was called rondismo [3] which harshly criticized the futurism movement calling its adherents as literary destroyers. [8] Though its programme was never fully carried through, it proposed classical perfection in place of experimentation, pointing to Leopardi and Manzoni as stylistic models. [9] La Ronda avoided taking part in political discussions. [10] Instead, it attempted to develop connections with international literary circles to make the Italian literary work much more known. [7] The magazine had an elitist approach and was not read by the masses. [1]

La Ronda had three major sections: discussion of literary and cultural affairs, major literary work and theories and review section which included both letters and reports on other magazines. [11] Notable contributors of the magazine included Guglielmo Ferrero, Vilfredo Pareto, Filippo Burzio, Giuseppe Raimondi, Alberto Savinio, Ardengo Soffici and Carlo Carrà. [8] Of them Ardengo Soffici left the magazine soon due to its apolitical stance and its insistence on returning to formal literary style. [10] La Ronda also featured translations of the work by Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Lee Masters and Thomas Hardy. [8]

La Ronda ceased publication in November 1922 after producing a total of 34 issues. [5] In December 1923 a special issue was released. [5]

Solaria , a literary magazine started in 1926, was influenced from La Ronda. [12]

All issues of La Ronda were archived under the project Circe at the University of Trento. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Francesca Billiani (July 2013). "Return to order as return to realism in two Italian elite literary magazines of the 1920s and 1930s: La Ronda and Orpheus" (PDF). Modern Language Review . 108 (3): 841,844. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.
  2. ↑ Jane Dunnett (2010). "Supergiallo: How Mondadori turned crime into a brand". The Italianist. 30 (1): 68. doi:10.1179/026143410X12646891556781. S2CID   143489197.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ronda, La". Treccani (in Italian).
  4. ↑ Simona Storchi (2001). Notions of tradition and modernity in Italian critical debates of the 1920s (Ph.D. thesis). University of London. pp. 60–61. ISBN   978-1-339-48161-6. ProQuest   1778448531.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "La Ronda" (in Italian). University of Trento . Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  6. ↑ "La rivista Letteraria "La Raccolta" di Giuseppe Raimondi". Bologna Online (in Italian). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  7. 1 2 Eric Jon Bulson (2016). Little Magazine, World Form. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 115–116. doi:10.7312/buls17976. ISBN   9780231542326.
  8. 1 2 3 Simone Germini (31 May 2013). "Riviste letterarie del Novecento – La Ronda". iMalpensanti (in Italian). Archived from the original on 25 June 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  9. ↑ Burdett, C. (2002). "Ronda, La". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press . Retrieved 4 June 2025.
  10. 1 2 Simona Storchi (2015). "Ardengo Soffici's "Rete mediterranea": The Aesthetics and Politics of Post-war Modernism". Annali d'Italianistica. 33: 328. JSTOR   43894808.
  11. ↑ Francesca Billiani (2023). "Geographies and Histories of World Literature in Interwar Italian Magazines". Journal of World Literature. 8 (2): 194. doi: 10.1163/24056480-00802002 . S2CID   259051096.
  12. ↑ Vanessa Santoro (2019). Fashioning sensibility: emotions in Gianna Manzini's fashion journalism (MA thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 21.
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