Campo di Marte (magazine)

Campo di Marte (meaning Field of Mars in English) was an Italian language literary magazine published briefly from 1938 to 1939 in Italy.

Campo di Marte
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Founder
First issueAugust 1938
Final issueAugust 1939
CountryItaly
Based inFlorence
LanguageItalian

History and profile

Campo di Marte was established by Vasco Pratolini and Alfonso Gatto in August 1938.[1] They also edited the magazine[1][2] which had its headquarters in Florence.[1][3]

Campo di Marte declared its goal as "to educate the people" about all the arts.[1] It had a sceptical approach towards the European avant-garde and modernist experience as well as to mass culture.[4] The magazine had an anti-fascist political leaning.[2] It openly questioned several aspects of the fascist regime in Italy.[5] Thus, it was subject to the censorship of the regime[5] and it was closed down by the regime in August 1939[6] after mere twelve issues.[2][7]

See also

References
  1. "Vasco Pratolini". Italica Press. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  2. Peter Bondanella; et al., eds. (1996). Dictionary of Italian Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Retrieved 17 January 2015. – via Questia (subscription required)
  3. Damien Simonis (2006). Florence. Lonely Planet. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-74059-809-5. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  4. Mariana Aguirre (2009). "The Return to Order in Florence: Il Selvaggio, Il Frontespizio, Pègaso, and Campo di Marte". Retrieved 7 January 2017. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (2013). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880–1940. Oxford University Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
  6. "Vasco Pratolini". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  7. Peter Bondanella; Julia Conway Bondanella; Jody Robin Shiffman (January 2001). Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature. A&C Black. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-304-70464-4.
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