Orpheus (magazine) explained

Editor Title:Editor-in-chief
Category:Modernist literary magazine
Frequency:Monthly
Firstdate:December 1932
Finaldate:January–March 1934
Country:Kingdom of Italy
Based:Milan
Language:Italian

Orpheus was a modernist monthly journal in Milan, Italy, between 1932 and 1934. Although it was a short-lived periodical, it significantly contributed to the intellectual debate took place in Fascist Italy.

History and profile

Orpheus was started in Milan in 1932, and its first issue appeared in December that year. The magazine was published monthly. Its editors were Luciano Anceschi and .[1] Brandon Albini was one of the anti-Fascist figures who was instrumental in its run.[2]

Orpheus had a radical and avant-garde approach and covered high cultural matters.[1] Drawings by Pino Ponti were featured in the magazine from 1933.[3] Its target audience was university students and anti-Fascist youth living in Milan.[1]

Orpheus was regularly distributed to book stores, but had less than fifty subscribers.[4] The magazine had a correspondent in Berlin, Grete Aberle, from its second issue.[1] The final issue of the magazine is dated January–March 1934.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Francesca Billiani. Return to order as return to realism in two Italian elite literary magazines of the 1920s and 1930s: La Ronda and Orpheus. 10.1353/mlr.2013.0192. July 2013. 108. 3. 841,844,847–848. Modern Language Review.
  2. Nicole Hardy Robinson. Out of Italy: Italian Women Exiled under Fascism Reimagine Home and the Italian Identity. PhD . University of California, Los Angeles. 195. 2016.
  3. Web site: Regalarte. a cura di Nicola Rotiroti. MeloBox. 8 December 2018. 20 August 2023. it.
  4. Book: Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. University of California Press. 2004. 978-0-520-24216-6. 222. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London.
  5. Web site: Dialectics of Modernity. 20 August 2023. manchester.ac.uk.