Malta (newspaper)
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| Type | Daily (1883-1940) fortnightly (1940-1943) |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founder(s) | Fortunato Mizzi |
| Editor | Fortunato Mizzi, Enrico Mizzi |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Valletta (1883-1940) Rome (1940-1943) |
| Country | Malta, Italy |
The Malta (subtitled "Quotidiano nazionalista"), sometimes also known as Gazzetta Maltese, was an Italian-language newspaper founded in 1883 in British Malta.
History[]
Fortunato Mizzi founded the newspaper as an Italian-language press outlet in Malta, at the time a British colony.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Malta, led by Enrico Mizzi, son of Fortunato, was the press outlet of the Italophiles Maltese irredentists gathered in the Partito Nazionalista.[1]
Following the entry of Italy into World War II, in June 1940 the newspaper was transferred to Rome, where it was written by irredentist emigrants. Published by , its frequency changed from daily to fortnightly.[2] It stopped its publications in July 1943.
References[]
- ^ Deborah Paci, Il mito del Risorgimento mediterraneo (tesi di dottorato), s.d., pag. 28 (versione digitalizzata).
- ^ Paola Gioia e Francesco Gandolfi (a cura di), Novecento periodico. Donne e uomini nella stampa periodica del XX secolo, pagg. 135-136.
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