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==History and profile==
==History and profile==
''Botteghe Oscure'' was established in 1948.<ref name=vqr/><ref name=oatd>{{cite thesis|author=Lorenzo M. Salvagni|title=In the Garden of Letters: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review Botteghe Oscure|url=https://oatd.org/oatd/record?record=oai\:cdr.lib.unc.edu\:uuid\:d43d7375-3285-4dea-912b-bd01b4520b6e |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |accessdate=15 November 2022|type=PhD Thesis|date=2013 |doi=10.17615/qxd3-0x37}}</ref> The magazine was named after via delle Botteghe Oscure (Latin: ''Ad Apothecas Obscuras''), where the editorial office was located;<ref name=vqr>{{cite news|author=Helen Barolini|author-link=Helen Barolini|title=The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops|url=http://www.vqronline.org/essay/shadowy-lady-street-dark-shops|accessdate=2 November 2014|work=VQR|issue=Spring 1998}}</ref> during the Middle Ages the street's "dark shops" came to be installed under the dark arches of the [[Circus Flaminius]] (''illustration of a street sign'').
''Botteghe Oscure'' was established in 1948.<ref name=vqr/><ref name=oatd>{{cite thesis|author=Lorenzo M. Salvagni|title=In the Garden of Letters: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review Botteghe Oscure|url=https://oatd.org/oatd/record?record=oai\:cdr.lib.unc.edu\:uuid\:d43d7375-3285-4dea-912b-bd01b4520b6e |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |accessdate=15 November 2022|type=PhD Thesis|date=2013 |doi=10.17615/qxd3-0x37}}</ref> The magazine was named after Rome’s via delle Botteghe Oscure (Latin: ''Ad Apothecas Obscuras''), where the editorial office was located;<ref name=vqr>{{cite news|author=Helen Barolini|author-link=Helen Barolini|title=The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops|url=http://www.vqronline.org/essay/shadowy-lady-street-dark-shops|accessdate=2 November 2014|work=VQR|issue=Spring 1998}}</ref> during the Middle Ages the street's "dark shops" came to be installed under the dark arches of the [[Circus Flaminius]] (''illustration of a street sign'').


The review was published twice a year with poetry and prose in five languages (Italian, French and English, and alternating issues featuring German and Spanish-language segments. It was distributed in the [[United States]] through [[Farrar, Straus & Young]] and the [[Gotham Book Mart]].<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1953/09/19/1953_09_19_113_TNY_CARDS_000240540?/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh Bogan, Louise. "Books," ''The New Yorker'', 19 September 1953.]</ref>
The review was published twice a year with poetry and prose in five languages (Italian, French and English, and alternating issues featuring German and Spanish-language segments. It was distributed in the [[United States]] through [[Farrar, Straus & Young]] and the [[Gotham Book Mart]].<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1953/09/19/1953_09_19_113_TNY_CARDS_000240540?/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh Bogan, Louise. "Books," ''The New Yorker'', 19 September 1953.]</ref>

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Botteghe Oscure
Categoriesliterary journal
FounderMarguerite Caetani
Founded1948
Final issue1960
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian, French, English, German, Spanish
OCLC1536926

Botteghe Oscure was a literary journal that was published and edited in Rome by Marguerite Caetani (Princess di Bassiano) from 1948 to 1960.

History and profile

Botteghe Oscure was established in 1948.[1][2] The magazine was named after Rome’s via delle Botteghe Oscure (Latin: Ad Apothecas Obscuras), where the editorial office was located;[1] during the Middle Ages the street's "dark shops" came to be installed under the dark arches of the Circus Flaminius (illustration of a street sign).

The review was published twice a year with poetry and prose in five languages (Italian, French and English, and alternating issues featuring German and Spanish-language segments. It was distributed in the United States through Farrar, Straus & Young and the Gotham Book Mart.[3]

Giorgio Bassani was an editor. Later Eugene Walter moved from Paris to Rome to edit the magazine for Marguerite Chapin Caetani who also founded and edited the magazine.[2] The publication of the magazine ended in 1960.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Helen Barolini. "The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops". VQR. No. Spring 1998. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b c Lorenzo M. Salvagni (2013). In the Garden of Letters: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review Botteghe Oscure (PhD Thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. doi:10.17615/qxd3-0x37. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  3. ^ Bogan, Louise. "Books," The New Yorker, 19 September 1953.

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