Il Politecnico

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Il Politecnico
EditorElio Vittorini
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Cultural magazine
FrequencyWeekly (September 1945-May 1946)
Monthly (May 1946-December 1947)
FounderGiulio Einaudi
Year founded1945
First issue29 September 1945
Final issue
Number		December 1947
39
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian
OCLC654801459

Il Politecnico (meaning the Polytechnic in English) was an Italian language Communist cultural and literary magazine published in Italy between 1945 and 1947. Its title was a reference to another Italian magazine with the same name established in 1839.[1]

History and profile[]

Il Politecnico was first published in Milan as a weekly on 29 September 1945.[2][3] Giulio Einaudi was the publisher and Elio Vittorini was the editor of the magazine.[2][4][5] Franco Fortini, an Italian poet and Marxist theorist, was one of the editorial board members of Il Politecnico.[6]

In an editorial in the first volume Vittorini declared that the magazine was inspired by the homonymous journal which had been founded by Carlo Cattaneo in 1839 and published until 1845.[7] On 1 May 1946 the magazine began to be published monthly.[8]

The idea behind the establishment of Il Politecnico was to rebuild Italian culture after the experience of Fascism.[2] This idea was originally developed by a communist Catholic philosopher Felice Balbo in 1945.[2] Il Politecnico also aimed at providing a democratic forum for literary discussions.[1]

The magazine rejected not to cover the work by non-Communist artists and featured translations of famous authors such as Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka and James Joyce.[4] The magazine also published photo-stories of Luigi Crocenzi.[9][10] Italo Calvino was among the contributors and in fact, he started his career as journalist in the magazine.[11]

Due its editorial policy Il Politecnico lost the support of the Communist Party and eventually, ceased publication in December 1947.[4] The 39th issue was the last one which did not announced the closing of the magazine.[6]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b Gaetana Marrone; Paolo Puppa (26 December 2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. p. 985. ISBN 978-1-135-45530-9.
  2. ^ a b c d Stefano Franchi; Francesco Bianchini (2011). The Search for a Theory of Cognition: Early Mechanisms and New Ideas. Rodopi. p. 117. ISBN 978-94-012-0715-7.
  3. ^ Andrew Stevens (October 2003). "Il Politecnico". 3am Review.
  4. ^ a b c Herbert Lottman (15 November 1998). The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War. University of Chicago Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-226-49368-8.
  5. ^ David Forgacs; Stephen Gundle (2007). Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Indiana University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-253-21948-0.
  6. ^ a b Anna Baldini (2016). "Working with images and texts: Elio Vittorini's Il Politecnico". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 21 (1): 50–51. doi:10.1080/1354571X.2016.1112064.
  7. ^ Alberto Cadioli; Silvia Cadioli (2018). Vittorini nella città politecnica. Pisa: ETS.
  8. ^ David Forgacs; Stephen Gundle (2007). Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Indiana University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-253-21948-0.
  9. ^ "Photography and Neorealism in Italy, 1945-19655". Rosphoto. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  10. ^ Giorgia Alù; Nancy Pedri (January 2015). Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature. University of Toronto Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-4426-4807-4.
  11. ^ Tracy Chevalier, ed. (1997). Encyclopedia of the Essay. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 9781884964305.
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