Cronaca Vera

Cronaca Vera (Italian for True Chronicles) is a weekly, tabloid news magazine, published in Italy.

Not to be confused with Cronaca nera.
Cronaca Vera
Issue 117 (1974)[note 1]
Editor-in-chiefGiuseppe Biselli
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherNew Message Uno S.r.l.
First issue1969
CountryItaly
Based inPiazza Erculea 5
Milano 20122
LanguageItalian
WebsiteCronaca Vera
ISSN1125-5536[1]

History

The magazine was founded in 1969 by entrepreneur Sergio Garassini, who had launched the monthly erotic magazine Kent.[2] Garassini appointed Antonio Perria, crime author and former ABC editor who had also worked at L'Unità as a crime reporter, to be the periodical's first editor-in-chief.[3] The graphic illustrator and comics artist Maurizio Bovarini[4] was entrusted with the design of Cronaca,[5] while he also, in the same year, started working as editor at the Italian edition of Hara-Kiri magazine.[6]

Content

The magazine is printed in "low-quality paper" and costs one euro. An issue typically contains from about a dozen up to fifteen reports ranging from local news to crime, from stories of everyday violence to controversies. It contains columns such as Il Racconto Giallo/Nero (Tales of Yellow/Black)[note 2] with crime stories, or I Misteri del Sesso (The Mysteries of Sex), where readers write in about their sexual problems. Its titles, in "jarring yellows and reds,"[7] are considered by Vice magazine to be "wonderful."[7]

Cronaca Vera is considered "a lurid tabloid" by some critics,[8] although its covers are for others "unmissable",[9] while for the mayoralty of Ribera, Agrigento, the magazine is "prestigious."[10]

Popularity

In the mid-1970s, Cronaca was selling approximately 600 thousand issues every week. Editor-in-chief Giuseppe Biselli contends that the magazine receives "approximately 20,000 letters" from readers every year.[5] He agrees with the finding that it is the most popular publication among prison inmates.[5]

See also

Notes
  1. The title reads: "She risked freezing to death for having excited a shy man from the valley - Beauful skier caught in the bear trap of the forester in love"
  2. The word giallo in Italian signifies not just the color yellow but also mystery fiction and thrillers. See Giallo.

References
  1. "Cronaca Vera" (in Italian). Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici. 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  2. Maina, Giovanna (2020). Play, men! Un panorama della stampa italiana per adulti (1966-1975) [Play, Men! A panorama of the Italian press for adults (1966-1975)] (in Italian). Mimesis. ISBN 978-8857556512.
  3. Amedei, Ermanno (4 October 2013). "Lo storico settimanale Cronaca Vera approda su internet e brucia sul tempo altri giornali più… moderni" [The historic weekly Cronaca Vera lands on the internet and over time burns up other more… modern newspapers]. Il punto a Mezzogiorno (in Italian). Rome. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. "Maurizio Bovarini" (in Italian). Associazione Franco Fossati, Museo del fumetto e della comunicazione. 2003. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. "Maurizio Bovarini". Amsterdam: Lambiek. 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  6. Small, Tim (5 January 2008). "La vera cronaca di Cronaca Vera" [The true chronicle of the True Chronicles]. Vice Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  7. Gundle, Stephen; Rinaldi, Lucia, eds. (7 November 2007). Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 170. ISBN 978-1349539444.
  8. "Cronaca Vera e la suora che ha abusato di una 12enne" [Cronaca Vera and the nun who abused a 12 year olda]. Next Quotidiano (in Italian). 25 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  9. "Il successo della 1o edizione del Pizza Fest su Cronaca Vera" [The success of the 1st Pizza Festival occasion in Cronaca Vera] (in Italian). Mayor's Cabinet Office. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
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