Critica fascista

Critica fascista was a biweekly cultural magazine which was founded and edited by Giuseppe Bottai in Rome, Italy. The magazine existed during the Fascist rule in the country from 1923 to 1943.[1] Over time it became one of the most significant publications of the fascist period in Italy.[2]

Critica fascista
Categories
  • Cultural magazine
  • Political magazine
FrequencyBiweekly
FounderGiuseppe Bottai
Founded1923
Final issue
Number		1943
21
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian
ISSN1124-3090
OCLC436549849

History and profile

Critica fascista was founded in 1923 by Italian journalist Giuseppe Bottai in Rome.[3][4] It was published on a biweekly basis and edited by Giuseppe Bottai during its lifetime.[5][6] The goal of Bottai was to provide a platform for the Fascist government to develop a cultural policy through intellectual and artistic discussions.[4] The magazine also aimed at educating the emerging ruling class and at initiating a discussion on the nature of Fascist ideology.[7]

Between 1926 and 1927 Critica fascista published various articles on the definition and scope of the state art which attempted to help the Fascist authorities in developing the related concepts.[4] The magazine adopted an anti-capitalist stance.[8] Its notable contributors included Ardengo Soffici, Mino Maccari, Gino Severini, Massimo Bontempelli, Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Curzio Malaparte, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Umberto Fracchia and Emilio Cecchi.[4] In the early 1930s Giuseppe Bottai and other Fascist figures frequently published articles in the magazine about the need for the modernization in all aspects of Italian life.[9]

Critica fascista folded in 1943, and the last issue was number 21.[3]

References
  1. Luca Michelini (2020). "From Nationalism to Fascism: Protagonists and Journals". In Massimo M. Augello; et al. (eds.). An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period. Vol. 2. Cham: Springer. p. 38. ISBN 978-3-030-38331-2.
  2. Alexandra de Luise (1992). "Le Arti and Intervention in the Arts". RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 19 (1/2): 130. JSTOR 42630502.
  3. "Fondi / Antonio Gramsci Periodici" (in Italian). Fondazione Gramsci. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  4. Francesca Billiani; Laura Pennacchietti (2019). Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 17, 20. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4. ISBN 978-3-030-19427-7. S2CID 158649280.
  5. Emiliana P. Noether (December 1971). "Italian Intellectuals under Fascism". The Journal of Modern History. 43 (4): 645. doi:10.1086/240685. JSTOR 1881234. S2CID 144377549.
  6. "Critica fascista (1923–43)". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  7. Luca de Caprariis (1998). Fascism and Italian foreign policy: 1922-1928 (PhD thesis). University of Wisconsin–Madison. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-591-87923-0. ProQuest 304457056.
  8. Jacopo Pili (2021). Anglophobia in Fascist Italy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 50. doi:10.7765/9781526159663. ISBN 9781526159663.
  9. Edward R. Tannenbaum (April 1969). "The Goals of Italian Fascism". The American Historical Review. 74 (4): 1185–1186. doi:10.1086/ahr/74.4.1183.
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