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Tempo Presente
Editor
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherItalian Association for Cultural Freedom
Founded1956
First issueApril 1956
Final issue1967
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian

Tempo Presente (Italian: Present Time) was a monthly political magazine which existed between 1956 and 1967 in Rome, Italy. It was supported by the Congress for Cultural Freedom which published other magazines, including Cuadernos, Encounter, Survey and Der Monat.[1][2]

History and profile

Tempo Presente was established in 1956 and published monthly in Rome by the Italian Association for Cultural Freedom.[3][4] The Association was the Italian division of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.[5] The first issue of Tempo Presente appeared in April 1956.[6]

The editors were Ignazio Silone and Nicola Chiaromonte.[6][7] The magazine featured articles published in other Congress magazines, including Cuadernos, Encounter, Der Monat and Preuves.[3] They all covered significant cultural and political events which were used to show the superiority of Western-style democracy over other alternatives of government.[8] However, each of these magazines had their own specific political stance mostly depending on the editors, and Tempo Presente adopted a left-wing approach.[8]

The major contributors of the monthly were leftist writers who did not support Communism: Italo Calvino, Vasco Pratolini, Libero de Libero, Albert Camus, Alberto Moravia, Leonardo Sciascia, Enzo Forcella, Nelo Risi, Elsa Morante, Altiero Spinelli, Giulio Guderzo, Giuliano Piccoli and Luciano Codignola.[5] Some well-known international writers also contributed to Tempo Presente, including Dwight Macdonald, Hannah Arendt, Melvin J. Lasky, Richard Löwenthal, Mary McCarty, Daniel Bell, Lewis A. Coser, Joseph Buttinger, Michael Harrington, Irving Howe and Theodore Draper.[5] The magazine folded in 1967 due to the low levels of circulation.[3][5]

References

  1. ^ Frances Stonor Saunders (2001). The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: The New Press. pp. 61, 130, 133. doi:10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim140150101. ISBN 978-1565846647.
  2. ^ Edward Shils; Peter Coleman (2009). "Remembering the Congress of Cultural Freedom". Society. 46 (5): 442. doi:10.1007/s12115-009-9243-4. S2CID 142993096.
  3. ^ a b c Andrew N. Rubin (2012). Archives of Authority. Empire, Culture, and the Cold War. Princeton, NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press. pp. 12, 19. doi:10.1515/9781400842179.fm. ISBN 978-0-691-15415-2.
  4. ^ Scott Kamen (2008). "Competing Visions: The CIA, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Non-Communist European Left, 1950-1967" (Document). Western Michigan University. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |citeseerx= ignored (help)
  5. ^ a b c d Chiara Morbi (2018). Domestic political culture and US-Italian relations in the early Cold War: A new perspective of analysis (PhD thesis). University of Birmingham. pp. 213–215.
  6. ^ a b Andrea Scionti (Winter 2020). ""I Am Afraid Americans Cannot Understand": The Congress for Cultural Freedom in France and Italy, 1950–1957". Journal of Cold War Studies. 22 (1): 92. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00927. S2CID 211147094.
  7. ^ Irving Kristol (Fall 1989). "The Way We Were". The National Interest (17): 73. JSTOR 42896759.
  8. ^ a b Felix W. Tweraser (2005). "Paris Calling Vienna: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Friedrich Torberg's Editorship of "Forum"". Austrian Studies. 13: 166, 170. JSTOR 27944766.
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