Il Frontespizio

Il Frontespizio
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Founder
FoundedMay 1929
Final issueDecember 1940
CountryKingdom of Italy
Based inFlorence
LanguageItalian

Il Frontespizio (Italian: The Frontispiece) was an art and literary magazine, which had a Catholic perspective. The magazine existed between 1929 and 1940 and was based in Florence, Italy.

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 the establishment of the magazine.[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.[6] Giuseppe de Luca, a Catholic priest, was among the regular contributors and served as the editor of Il Frontespizio.[4][7] Although it targeted Catholic intellectuals, who had been alienated from public life since the Unification of Italy in 1861,[4] the goal of the magazine was not to disseminate Catholic art.[1] Instead, it aimed at being an alternative to avant-gardism and fascist culture in Italy.[4] In addition, Il Frontespizio adopted an anti-Semitic approach.[8] The magazine introduced the Hermetic poetry in Italy[4] through the work by Carlo Bo, a literary critic, Mario Luzi and Piero Bigongiari.[9] The magazine also covered the work by Italian sculptors, including Bartolini, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, De Pisis, Mino Maccari, Manzu, Giorgio Morandi, Ottone Rosai, Semeghini, Severini, Soffici, and Lorenzo Viani.[10]

Il Frontespizio was the recipient of the best graphic work award at the Milan Triennale in 1935.[4] The magazine ended publication in December 1940.[1][5][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Il Frontespizio" (in Italian). CIRCE. Catalogo Informatico Riviste Culturali Europee. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  2. ^ Ernesto Livorni (2016). "The Giubee Rosse Café in Florence: A literary and political alcove from futurism to anti-Fascist resistance". In Leona Rittner; et al. (eds.). The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna. London; New York: Routledge. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-317-01414-0.
  3. ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson (2010). The A to Z of Modern Italy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-4616-7202-9.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Mariana Aguirre (2009). "The Return to Order in Florence: Il Selvaggio (1924-43), Il Frontespizio (1929-40), Pègaso (1929-33), Campo di Marte (1938-9)". In Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
  5. ^ a b "Frontespizio, Il". Treccani (in Italian).
  6. ^ Elia Celestina Della Chiesa (8 February 2007). "An interview with Antonina Bargellini". The Florentine. No. 49. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  7. ^ Alessandra Tarquini (October 2005). "The Anti-Gentilians during the Fascist Regime". Journal of Contemporary History. 40 (4): 651. doi:10.1177/0022009405056122. S2CID 143453936.
  8. ^ Lynn M. Gunzberg (1992). Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-520-91258-8.
  9. ^ 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). doi:10.21427/D7V88R.
  10. ^ a b "Il Frontespizio, rivista mensile - 1929-1940 Tutto il pubblicato". Ferraguti (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2017.