Asso di bastoni (Italian: Ace of clubs; Italian pronunciation: [ˌasso di baˈstoːni]) was a weekly satirical and political magazine which was headquartered in Rome, Italy. It was in circulation between 1948 and 1957. The magazine was the organ of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana which was established by the members of the Italian Social Movement, a neo-fascist political party.
| Categories |
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|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Repubblica Sociale Italiana |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Final issue | 1957 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Rome |
| Language | Italian |
History and profile
editAsso di bastoni was launched by the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in 1948.[1][2] The group consisted of the members of the Italian Social Movement.[1] The magazine was published on a weekly basis in Rome.[2] Vanni Teodorani who was the son-in-law of Arnaldo Mussolini was the director of the magazine.[3] One of the contributors was British fascist politician Oswald Mosley who published articles on his European vision.[4] In fact, Mosley's Europe a Nation was among the supporters of the magazine.[4]
During its lifetime Asso di bastoni sold 30,000 weekly copies.[1] It offered a prize for the stories which covered the period between 1940 and 1945.[5] Some of the stories that won this prize were published in Asso di bastoni.[5] The magazine folded in 1957.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Dairo Pasquini (2020). "Longing for Purity: Fascism and Nazism in the Italian and German Satirical Press (1943/1945–1963)". European History Quarterly. 50 (3): 469. doi:10.1177/0265691420932251. S2CID 221015170.
- ^ a b c Elisabetta Cassina Wolff (August 2011). "The meaning and role of the concepts of democracy and corporatism in Italian neo-fascist ideology (1945–1953)". Modern Italy. 16 (3): 297. doi:10.1080/13532944.2010.524887. S2CID 145376470.
- ^ "Vanni Teodorani. Quaderno 1945 - 1946" (in Italian). Stilgraf. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ a b Andrea Mammone (2011). "Revitalizing and de-territorializing fascism in the 1950s: the extreme right in France and Italy, and the pan-national ('European') imaginary". Patterns of Prejudice. 45 (4): 297. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2011.605842. S2CID 145290608.
- ^ a b Andrea Martini (2020). "Defeated? An analysis of Fascist memoirist literature and its success". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 25 (3): 303. doi:10.1080/1354571X.2020.1750795. S2CID 221055040.
External links
editDigital copies of the magazine Biblioteca Digitale