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Monthly modernist magazine in Kingdom of Italy (1932–1934) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Editor-in-chief |
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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 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 .[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]
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