Orpheus (magazine)

*Orpheus*
Editor-in-chief	Luciano Anceschi; Enzo Paci [it];
Categories	Modernist literary magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	December 1932
Final issue	January–March 1934
Country	Kingdom of Italy
Based in	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[edit]

Orpheus was started in Milan in 1932, and its first issue appeared in December that year.^[1] The magazine was published monthly.^[2] Its editors were Luciano Anceschi and Enzo Paci [it].^[3] Brandon Albini was one of the anti-Fascist figures who was instrumental in its run.^[4]

Orpheus had a radical and avant-garde approach and covered high cultural matters.^[3] Drawings by Pino Ponti were featured in the magazine from 1933.^[5] Its target audience was university students and anti-Fascist youth living in Milan.^[3]

Orpheus was regularly distributed to book stores, but had less than fifty subscribers.^[2] The magazine had a correspondent in Berlin, Grete Aberle, from its second issue.^[3] The final issue of the magazine is dated January–March 1934.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Dialectics of Modernity". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2004). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-520-24216-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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): 841,844,847–848. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.
^ Nicole Hardy Robinson (2016). Out of Italy: Italian Women Exiled under Fascism Reimagine Home and the Italian Identity (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. p. 195.
^ "Regalarte. a cura di Nicola Rotiroti". MeloBox (in Italian). 8 December 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

[manc-1] "Dialectics of Modernity". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

[benghiat-2] Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2004). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-520-24216-6.

[fbil-3] 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): 841,844,847–848. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.

[4] Nicole Hardy Robinson (2016). Out of Italy: Italian Women Exiled under Fascism Reimagine Home and the Italian Identity (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. p. 195.

[5] "Regalarte. a cura di Nicola Rotiroti". MeloBox (in Italian). 8 December 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

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