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Il Selvaggio
Editor-in-chiefMino Maccari
Former editorsAngelo Bencini
Categories
  • Arts magazine
  • Political magazine
Frequency
  • Bimonthly
  • Weekly
  • Irregular
Founder
Founded1924
First issue13 July 1924
Final issueJune 1943
CountryItaly
Based in
LanguageItalian
ISSN2420-9376
OCLC173994792

Il Selvaggio (Italian: the Savage or the Wild One) was a political and arts magazine that existed between 1924 and 1943. It was a media outlet of an intellectual group called Strapaese (Italian: Supervillage).[1]

History and profile

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Il Selvaggio was founded by Angelo Bencini and Mino Maccari, an Italian fascist artist and journalist, in Colle di Val d'Elsa in 1924 as a political magazine.[2][3] The first issue of the bimonthly magazine was published on 13 July 1924.[4][5] The founding director was Angiolo Bencini who held the post until 1926 when Mino Maccari succeeded him.[2] The latter also edited the magazine.[6][7] It featured articles on art, politics and humor.[5]

The format of the magazine was 50x35 cm, but was changed to 44x32 cm.[4] It had a variable number of pages ranging from four to twelve pages.[4] From 1926 Il Selvaggio was headquartered in Florence.[4] The same year the Fascist government forced the magazine to include cultural and satirical materials, thus making clear its goal to promote a version of an anti-intellectual version of arts.[8] Then the magazine focused on the core of the Italian spirit observed "in the cradle of Italian civilization, namely the hills and countryside of Tuscany".[8] In this period it came out weekly and acted as a representative of Tuscan rural extremism.[9]

The editorial offices of Il Selvaggio moved to Siena in 1929 and then to Turin in 1930.[10] In 1932 its headquarters moved to Rome.[10] The frequency of the magazine was also frequently changed but was mostly published irregularly.[2] Leo Longanesi, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carrà, Mario Tinti, Manlio Malabotta, Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra, Giuseppe Pensabene and Ottone Rosai were among the leading contributors of the magazine.[4] In 1932 Soffici published articles on his experience in Paris in the early years of the 20th century in the magazine.[11] Over time Il Selvaggio focused on artistic subjects, including architectural topics, instead of political topics.[4] The last issue of the magazine appeared in June 1943.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2001). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520242166.
  2. ^ a b c d "Il Selvaggio" (in Italian). Circe. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  3. ^ Lynn M. Gunzberg (Summer 1983). "Ruralism, Folklore, and Grazia Deledda's Novels". Modern Language Studies. 13 (3): 116. doi:10.2307/3194185. JSTOR 3194185.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Michela Rosso (2016). "Il Selvaggio 1926–1942: Architectural Polemics and Invective Imagery". Architectural Histories. 4 (1): 1. doi:10.5334/ah.203.
  5. ^ a b Alessandra Aquilanti (2015). Humor in Fascist Italy (PhD thesis). Stanford University. pp. 166–168. ISBN 9798662565203. ProQuest 2501173396.
  6. ^ Francesca Billiani; Laura Pennacchietti (2019). Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 21. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4. ISBN 978-3-030-19427-7. S2CID 158649280.
  7. ^ Peter Davies; Derek Lynch, eds. (2002). The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right. London; New York. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-203-99472-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ a b Valerio C. Ferme (Summer 1998). "Redefining the Aesthetics of Fascism: The battle Between the Ancients and the Moderns Revisited". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 52 (2): 74. doi:10.1080/00397709809598260.
  9. ^ Luca de Caprariis (1998). Fascism and Italian foreign policy: 1922-1928 (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-591-87923-0. ProQuest 304457056.
  10. ^ a b "Il Selvaggio" (in Italian). Riviste Scuola Romana. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  11. ^ Flora Ghezzo (January 2010). "Topographies of Disease and Desire: Mapping the City in Fascist Italy". Modern Language Notes. 125 (1): 205. doi:10.1353/mln.0.0227. S2CID 161623497.
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