In Italy there are many magazines. In the late 1920s there were nearly one hundred literary magazines. [1] Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. [2] [3] From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in number in the country. [4] The number of consumer magazines was 975 in 1995 and 782 in 2004. [5] There are also Catholic magazines and newspapers in the country. [6] A total of fifty-eight Catholic magazines was launched between 1867 and 1922. [6] From 1923 to 1943, the period of the Fascist Regime, only ten new Catholic magazines was started. [6] In the period from 1943 to the end of the Second Vatican Council thirty-three new magazines were established. [6] Until 2010 an additional eighty-six Catholic magazines were founded. [6]
The magazines had 3,400 million euros revenues in 2009, and 21.5% of these revenues were from advertising. [7]
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Italy. They are published in Italian or other languages.
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among the Communist base" and "a hero of his time, capable of courageous personal feats", his supporters gave him the nickname il Migliore. In 1930, Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union. Upon his death, Togliatti had a Soviet city named after him. Considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic, he led Italy's Communist party from a few thousand members in 1943 to two million members in 1946.
Giuseppe Bottai was an Italian journalist and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.
Dino Battaglia was an Italian comic artist, noted for a distinctive and expressive style, best known for his visual adaptations of classic novels.
Giancarlo Alessandrini is an Italian comic artist.
Sergio Toppi was an Italian illustrator and comics author.
The Corriere dei Piccoli, later nicknamed Corrierino, was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a regular feature of publishing comic strips.
Enzo Giudici was an Italian academic who specialized in French Renaissance literature, particularly Louise Labé and Maurice Scève. Giudici was also a publicist often compared with fascism.
Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Camerino in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of fascism. He has also researched and published extensively on the totalitarian structure of Mussolini's regime, its repressive mechanisms and its system of informants. He studied under Renzo De Felice, and has published in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, the Italian dailies la Repubblica and Cronache di Liberal.
Brunella Gasperini, pen name of Bianca Robecchi was an Italian journalist and novelist.
Antonio Rubino was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist, animation director, screenwriter, playwright, author and poet. He was the most prolific comics illustrator in Italy before World War I.
Toni Pagot was an Italian comics artist and animator.
Michela Murgia was an Italian novelist, playwright, and radio personality. She was a winner of the Premio Campiello, the Mondello International Literary Prize and Dessì prize, and was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the Italian public scene, speaking out on themes such as euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights.
Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca is an Italian novel by Vamba.
Noi donne is a monthly feminist magazine published in Rome, Italy. It is one of the most significant feminist publications in the country.
Solaria was a modernist literary magazine published in Florence, Italy, between 1926 and 1936. The title is a reference to the city of sun. The magazine is known for its significant influence on young Italian writers. It was one of the publications which contributed to the development of the concept of Europeanism.
Menotti Augusto Serse Lerro is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, librettist and academic. His work explores matters of social alienation and existentialism, the physicality and vulnerability of the body, the interpretation of memories, the meaning of objects and the philosophical importance of human identity. In 2015 he published Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno, an innovative feminine and bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla, while in 2018 he wrote Il Dottor Faust, an original version of the character of Faust. In addition he is the author of a New Manifesto of Arts and the founder of the Empathic movement (Empathism) that arose in the South of Italy at the beginning of 2020.
Roberto Ricci, known as Berto Ricci was an Italian Fascist writer, journalist and poet. One of the foremost Fascist intellectuals, he wrote for Il Popolo d'Italia, Il Selvaggio, Primato and Critica fascista as well as for his own magazine, L'Universale, which he founded in 1931. He was also a teacher at the School of Fascist Mysticism.
Pattuglia was a weekly communist satirical magazine published between 1948 and 1953 in Milan, Italy. It was official media outlet of the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party. Its subtitle was il corriere dei giovani.
Carolina Luzzatto was a journalist and writer from Austria-Hungary. She was one of the early female newspaper directors in Italy and was part of the irredentist liberal-national journalists of the period.
Noi: Rivista d’arte futurista was an avant-garde magazine which adopted a futurist stance. It was published in Rome between 1917 and 1925. Its subtitle was Raccolta internazionale d’arte d’avanguardia.
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