La Ronda (magazine)
 Cover of the first issue dated April 1919 | |
| Editor-in-chief | Vincenzo Cardarelli |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founder | Lorenzo Montano |
| First issue | 23 April 1919 |
| Final issue | December 1923 |
| Country | Kingdom of Italy |
| Based in | Rome |
| Language | Italian |
La Ronda (Italian: 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.
History and profile[edit]
La Ronda was first published on 23 April 1919.[1] It was founded by the poet and writer Lorenzo Montano.[2] The magazine came out monthly and was headquartered in Rome.[3] It was modeled on the Bologna-based magazine La Raccolta.[4]
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.[5] From the second year only Cardarelli and Saffi continued to serve in the post.[1] In addition, Cardarelli was the editor-in-chief of La Ronda.[1] 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.[6]
The aim of La Ronda was to reinforce a modernist literary approach supporting the values of literature understood as a style.[1][3] 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[3] which harshly criticized the futurism movement calling its adherents as literary destroyers.[8] La Ronda avoided taking part in political discussions.[9] 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.[1]
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.[10] Notable contributors of the magazine included Guglielmo Ferrero, Vilfredo Pareto, Filippo Burzio, Giuseppe Raimondi, Alberto Savinio, Ardengo Soffici and Carlo Carrà.[8] Of them Ardengo Soffici left the magazine soon due to its apolitical stance and its insistence on returning to formal literary style.[9] 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.[8]
La Ronda ceased publication in November 1922 after producing a total of 34 issues.[5] In December 1923 a special issue was released.[5]
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.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Francesca Billiani (July 2013). "Return to order as return to realism in two Italian elite literary magazines of the 1920s and 1930s: La Ronda and Orpheus". Modern Language Review. 108 (3): 841,844. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.
- ^ Jane Dunnett (2010). "Supergiallo: How Mondadori turned crime into a brand". The Italianist. 30 (1): 68. doi:10.1179/026143410X12646891556781. S2CID 143489197.
- ^ a b c "Ronda, La". Treccani (in Italian).
- ^ Simona Storchi (2001). Notions of tradition and modernity in Italian critical debates of the 1920s (Ph.D. thesis). University of London. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-1-339-48161-6. ProQuest 1778448531.
- ^ a b c d "La Ronda" (in Italian). University of Trento. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "La rivista Letteraria "La Raccolta" di Giuseppe Raimondi". Bologna Online (in Italian). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ a b Eric Jon Bulson (2016). Little Magazine, World Form. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 115–116. doi:10.7312/buls17976. ISBN 9780231542326.
- ^ a b c Simone Germini (31 May 2013). "Riviste letterarie del Novecento – La Ronda". iMalpensanti (in Italian). Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ a b Simona Storchi (2015). "Ardengo Soffici's "Rete mediterranea": The Aesthetics and Politics of Post-war Modernism". Annali d'Italianistica. 33: 328. JSTOR 43894808.
- ^ Francesca Billiani (2023). "Geographies and Histories of World Literature in Interwar Italian Magazines". Journal of World Literature. 8 (2): 194. doi:10.1163/24056480-00802002. S2CID 259051096.
- ^ Vanessa Santoro (2019). Fashioning sensibility: emotions in Gianna Manzini’s fashion journalism (MA thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 21.
External links[edit]
Media related to La Ronda at Wikimedia Commons
