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

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

^ ^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" (PDF). 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" (PDF). 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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