Campo di Marte (magazine)

Campo di Marte (Italian: Field of Mars) was a literary magazine published briefly from 1938 to 1939 in Florence, Italy.

Campo di Marte

Categories	Literary magazine
Founder	Vasco Pratolini Alfonso Gatto
First issue	August 1938
Final issue	August 1939
Country	Italy
Based in	Florence
Language	Italian

History and profile

Campo di Marte was established by Vasco Pratolini and Alfonso Gatto in August 1938.^[1][2] They also edited the magazine,^[1] which had its headquarters in Florence.^[1][3]

Campo di Marte declared its goal as "to educate the people" about the arts.^[1] It had a sceptical approach towards the European avant-garde and modernist experience as well as to mass culture.^[4] The magazine had an anti-fascist political leaning.^[5] It openly questioned several aspects of the fascist regime in Italy.^[4] It was subjected to censorship^[4] and closed down by the regime in August 1939^[2][6] after only twelve issues.^[5]

See also

• List of magazines in Italy

References

1. "Vasco Pratolini". Italica Press. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
2. Emiliana P. Noether (December 1971). "Italian Intellectuals under Fascism". The Journal of Modern History. 43 (4): 646. doi:10.1086/240685. S2CID 144377549.
3. Damien Simonis (2006). Florence. Lonely Planet. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-74059-809-5.
4. Mariana Aguirre (2013). "The return to order in Florence: Il Selvaggio (1924–1943); Il Frontespizio (1929–1940); Pègaso (1929–1933); and Campo di Marte (1938–1939)". In Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 491–510. ISBN 9780199659586.
5. Peter Bondanella; Julia Conway Bondanella, eds. (2001). Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature. London: A&C Black. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-304-70464-4.
6. "Vasco Pratolini". Encyclopædia Britannica.