Orpheus was a modernist monthly journal in Milan, Italy, between 1932 and 1934. Although it was a short-lived periodical, it significantly contributed to the intellectual debate took place in Fascist Italy.
| Editor-in-chief | |
|---|---|
| Categories | Modernist literary magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | December 1932 |
| Final issue | January–March 1934 |
| Country | Kingdom of Italy |
| Based in | Milan |
| Language | Italian |
History and profile
editOrpheus was started in Milan in 1932, and its first issue appeared in December that year.[1] The magazine was published monthly.[2] Its editors were Luciano Anceschi and Enzo Paci.[3] Brandon Albini was one of the anti-Fascist figures who was instrumental in its run.[4]
Orpheus had a radical and avant-garde approach and covered high cultural matters.[3] Drawings by Pino Ponti were featured in the magazine from 1933.[5] Its target audience was university students and anti-Fascist youth living in Milan.[3]
Orpheus was regularly distributed to book stores, but had less than fifty subscribers.[2] The magazine had a correspondent in Berlin, Grete Aberle, from its second issue.[3] The final issue of the magazine is dated January–March 1934.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Dialectics of Modernity". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ a b Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2004). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-520-24216-6.
- ^ a b c d 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): 841,844,847–848. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.
- ^ Nicole Hardy Robinson (2016). Out of Italy: Italian Women Exiled under Fascism Reimagine Home and the Italian Identity (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. p. 195.
- ^ "Regalarte. a cura di Nicola Rotiroti". MeloBox (in Italian). 8 December 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2023.