Quaderni piacentini

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Quaderni piacentini
Categories
  • Political magazine
  • Cultural magazine
FrequencyBimonthly
Founded1962
Final issue1984
CountryItaly
Based in Piacenza
LanguageItalian

Quaderni piacentini (Italian : Piacenza Notebooks) was a leftist political and cultural magazine which was published in Piacenza, Italy, between 1962 and 1984 with some interruptions. The magazine was one of the theoretical-political media outlets of the New Left [1] and was one of the early publications with a pro-Chinese stance in Italy. [2]

History and profile

Quaderni piacentini was founded by Piergiorgio Bellocchio and Grazia Cherchi in Piacenza in 1962. [3] [4] It followed the tradition of Il Politecnico , a Milan-based Communist cultural and literary magazine published between 1945 and 1947. [5]

Quaderni piacentini was published bimonthly until 1980 [6] and ceased publication in 1984. [4] The magazine was directed by Piergiorgio Bellocchio. [6] From 1971 it was directed by a management committee. [6] The magazine covered articles on the student movement of 1968 and on criticism of capitalist society. [6] After 1965 it began to feature discussions about the American civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [4]

The contributors of Quaderni piacentini were critical of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and other leading communist groups of the period in Italy. [3] The reason for this opposition against the PCI was the party's nonrevolutionary policy. [4] Although the Quaderni piacentini writers did not have a homogenous ideology, they were all adherents of the anti-moderate, anti-reformism and libertarianism. [4] They also had a pro-Chinese stance. [2] Notable contributors of Quaderni piacentini included Franco Fortini, [2] Goffredo Fofi, Giovanni Giudici [6] and Alberto Asor Rosa. [4] The magazine was read mostly by leftist university students. [5] In 1968 and 1970 it managed to sell 13,000 copies. [4] [5]

There are some books about Quaderni piacentini, [5] one of which was published by Giacomo Pontremoli in 2017. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Valdo Spini (January–April 1972). "The New Left in Italy". Journal of Contemporary History . 7 (1–2): 58. doi:10.1177/002200947200700103. JSTOR   259757.
  2. 1 2 3 Marco Gabbas (2022). "The origins of Italian Maoism". The Global Sixties. 15 (1–2): 81, 86. doi:10.1080/27708888.2022.2144248.
  3. 1 2 3 Matteo Marchesini (June 2017). "Sui "Quaderni piacentini"" (in Italian). Il blog di Claudio Giunta. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fabio Guidali (2020). "Culture and political commitment in the nonorthodox Marxist Left: the case of Quaderni piacentini in pre-1968 Italy". History of European Ideas . 46 (6): 862–875. doi:10.1080/01916599.2020.1756892.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Piergiorgio Bellocchio e i Quaderni piacentini". La letteratura e noi (in Italian). 3 August 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Quaderni piacentini". Treccani (in Italian).
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