Il Frontespizio

Il Frontespizio
Categories Literary magazine
Founder Enrico Lucatello
Piero Bargellini
Year founded 1929
Final issue 1940
Country Italy
Based in Florence
Language Italian

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.

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Il frontespizio (1929 - 1940)". Permusica. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mariana Aguirre (2009). "The Return to Order in Florence: Il Selvaggio, Il Frontespizio, Pègaso, and Campo di Marte". Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Frontespizio, Il". Treccani. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Elia Celestina Della Chiesa (8 February 2007). "An interview with Antonina Bargellini". The Florentine (49). Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. 1 2 "Il Frontespizio, rivista mensile - 1929-1940 Tutto il pubblicato". Ferraguti (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2017.
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