Circoli was a bimonthly literary magazine published in Genoa, Italy, between 1931 and 1936. It was described as one of the most distinguished European magazines in 1934.[1]

Circoli
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Frequency
  • Bimonthly (1931–1935)
  • Monthly (1935–1939)
PublisherGrafico editoriale
FounderAdriano Grande
Founded1931
First issueJanuary-February 1931
Final issue
Number
December 1939
12
CountryItaly
Based inGenoa
LanguageItalian
ISSN2388-3812
OCLC889585990

History and profile edit

Circoli was started in Genoa in 1931.[2][3] Adriano Grande, an Italian poet, was the founder of the magazine,[2] which intended to be the successor of Solaria, a literary magazine published in Turin and Florentine.[3] Circoli was subtitled Rivista di Poesi (Italian: Poetry Magazine) and was published on a bimonthly basis.[1] Its publisher was Grafico editoriale.[4] From 1935 the frequency of the magazine became monthly.[4]

Adriano Grande was also the director of the magazine, which published translations of the work by international authors, among others.[5][6] Attilio Bertolucci, Salvatore Quasimodo and Ferdinando Agnoletti were some of its contributors.[7][8] During its run the magazine was supported by the press office.[6] In December 1939 the magazine was closed down with the publication of the twelfth issue.[9]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b M. D. Z (March 1934). "Recent Magazines". Poetry. 43 (6): 348–354. JSTOR 20579392.
  2. ^ a b "Adriano Grande". Oxford Reference.
  3. ^ a b Massimiliano Manganelli (2002). "Grande, Adriano". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 58.
  4. ^ a b "Circoli rivista di poesia" (in Italian). Biblioteca Digitale.
  5. ^ Simone Castaldi (2010). Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-60473-777-6.
  6. ^ a b Ruth Ben-Ghiat (September 1995). "Fascism, Writing, and Memory: The Realist Aesthetic in Italy, 1930-1950". The Journal of Modern History. 67 (3): 627–665. doi:10.1086/245175. S2CID 143577836.
  7. ^ "Book presentation and readings". Italian Cultural Institute in New York. 27 October 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  8. ^ Daniela La Penna (2018). "Habitus and Embeddedness in the Florentine Literary Field: The Case of Alberto Carocci (1926–1939)". Italian Studies. 73 (2): 138. doi:10.1080/00751634.2018.1444536. S2CID 218693230.
  9. ^ "Circoli: Rivista di Poesia" (in Italian). Fondazione Gramsci. Retrieved 23 January 2022.