| Editor: | Vincenzo Cardarelli |
| Editor Title: | Editor-in-chief |
| Category: | Literary magazine |
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Founder: | Lorenzo Montano |
| Firstdate: | 23 April 1919 |
| Finaldate: | December 1923 |
| Country: | Kingdom of Italy |
| Based: | Rome |
| Language: | Italian |
La Ronda (it|The Round) was a literary magazine which existed in Rome, Kingdom of Italy, between April 1919 and November 1922. In December 1923 a special issue was also published.
La Ronda was first published on 23 April 1919. It was founded by the poet and writer Lorenzo Montano.[1] The magazine came out monthly and was headquartered in Rome. It was modeled on the Bologna-based magazine La Raccolta.[2]
Vincenzo Cardarelli, Aurelio E. Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Antonio Baldini, Bruno Barilli, Emilio Cecchi and Lorenzo Montano were the members of its editorial board in the first year.[3] From the second year only Cardarelli and Saffi continued to serve in the post. In addition, Cardarelli was the editor-in-chief of La Ronda. Following the closure of La Raccolta in February 1919 its editor Giuseppe Raimondi joined La Ronda as its secretary which he held for a while.[4]
The aim of La Ronda was to reinforce a modernist literary approach supporting the values of literature understood as a style.[5] [6] In the first editorial Cardarelli argued that it was time to focus on the Italian modernism which had delayed due to World War I.[7] The magazine managed to develop a literary movement which was called rondismo[6] which harshly criticized the futurism movement calling its adherents as literary destroyers. La Ronda avoided taking part in political discussions.[8] Instead, it attempted to develop connections with international literary circles to make the Italian literary work much more known.[7] The magazine had an elitist approach and was not read by the masses.[5]
La Ronda had three major sections: discussion of literary and cultural affairs, major literary work and theories and review section which included both letters and reports on other magazines.[9] Notable contributors of the magazine included Guglielmo Ferrero, Vilfredo Pareto, Filippo Burzio, Giuseppe Raimondi, Alberto Savinio, Ardengo Soffici and Carlo Carrà.[10] Of them Ardengo Soffici left the magazine soon due to its apolitical stance and its insistence on returning to formal literary style.[8] La Ronda also featured translations of the work by Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Lee Masters and Thomas Hardy.[10]
La Ronda ceased publication in November 1922 after producing a total of 34 issues.[3] In December 1923 a special issue was released.[3]
Solaria, a literary magazine started in 1926, was influenced from La Ronda.[11]
All issues of La Ronda were archived under the project Circe at the University of Trento.[3]