Il Frontespizio
Il Frontespizio (meaning The Frontispiece in English) was an Italian art and literary magazine, which had a Catholic perspective. The magazine existed between 1929 and 1940.
Categories | Literary magazine |
---|---|
Founder | Enrico Lucatello Piero Bargellini |
Year founded | 1929 |
Final issue | 1940 |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Florence |
Language | Italian |
History and profile
Il Frontespizio was first published in May 1929.[1] The founders were Enrico Lucatello and Piero Bargellini.[2] Giovanni Papini was also instrumental in its establishment.[3] The headquarters of Il Frontespizio was in Florence.[4][5] From August 1929 the magazine became monthly, but it rarely published double issues.[1] Vallecchi was the publisher of the magazine from July 1930 to its closure in 1940.[4]
The founding editor was Enrico Lucatello, who was succeeded by Piero Bargellini in the post.[1][6] Although it targeted Catholic intellectuals, who had been alienated from public life since the Unification of Italy in 1861,[4] its goal was not to disseminate Catholic art.[1] Instead, it aimed at being an alternative to avant-gardism and fascist culture in Italy.[4] It adopted an anti-Semitic approach.[7] The magazine started the Hermetic poetry in Italy[4] through the work by Carlo Bo, a literary critic, Mario Luzi and Piero Bigongiari.[8] Giuseppe de Luca, a priest, was among the regular contributors.[4] It also covered the work by Italian sculptures, including Bartolini, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, De Pisis, Mino Maccari, Manzu, Giorgio Morandi, Ottone Rosai, Semeghini, Severini, Soffici, and Lorenzo Viani.[9]
Il Frontespizio is the recipient of the best graphic work award at the Milan Triennale in 1935.[4] The magazine ended publication in 1940.[5][9]
References
- "Il frontespizio (1929 - 1940)". Permusica. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- Leona Rittner; W. Scott Haine (3 March 2016). The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna. Routledge. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-317-01414-0. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (20 April 2010). The A to Z of Modern Italy. Scarecrow Press. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-4616-7202-9. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- 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) - "Frontespizio, Il". Treccani. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- Elia Celestina Della Chiesa (8 February 2007). "An interview with Antonina Bargellini". The Florentine (49). Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- Lynn M. Gunzberg (30 December 1992). Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination. University of California Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-520-91258-8. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- Maria Belén Hernández-González (2016). "The Construction of the Memory of Italy in Argentina through a Choice of Translated Essays". CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language. 1 (1). Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- "Il Frontespizio, rivista mensile - 1929-1940 Tutto il pubblicato". Ferraguti (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2017.