Società

Società

Categories	Cultural magazine
Frequency	Quarterly (1945-1954) Bimonthly (1954-1961)
Founder	Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli Cesare Luporini Romano Bilenchi
Founded	1945
Final issue	1961
Country	Italy
Based in	Florence Rome
Language	Italian

Società (Italian: Society) was an Italian communist cultural magazine published in Italy between 1945 and 1961.

History and profile

Società was founded as a quarterly magazine in Florence in 1945.^[1][2] The founders were Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Cesare Luporini and Romano Bilenchi.^[1] Bandinelli also directed the magazine.^[3] In 1948 the magazine became closer to the Italian Communist Party (PCI),^[1] but was not published by the party.^[3] The headquarters was later moved to Rome,^[2] and in 1954 its frequency was switched to bimonthly.^[1]

Società featured Italian fiction and poetry and occasionally included some essays on the theater and the cinema.^[2] It was one of the publications read by the Italian intellectuals, who had Gramscian views.^[4] Giorgio Napolitano was one of the regular contributors of the magazine.^[5] The magazine folded in 1961.^[6]

References

1. Lorenzo Bertazzi (2013). The 'Battle of Ideas': The Italian Communist Party's encounter with American culture after World War II (MA thesis). Uppsala University.
2. Sergio J. Pacifici (Autumn 1955). "Current Italian Literary Periodicals: A Descriptive Checklist". Books Abroad. 29 (4): 409–412. doi:10.2307/40094752. JSTOR 40094752.
3. Francesco Cassata (Fall 2012). "The Italian Communist Party and the "Lysenko Affair" (1948-1955)". Journal of the History of Biology. 45 (3): 469–498. doi:10.1007/s10739-011-9286-4. JSTOR 41653571. PMID 21701868. S2CID 254539463.
4. Gino Moliterno, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London; New York: Routledge. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-134-75877-7.
5. "President of Italy will Deliver Conference on Integration in Latin America and Europe". CEPAL. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
6. Genna Caterina (2010). Guido De Ruggiero e "La Nuova Europa". Tra idealismo e storicismo: Tra idealismo e storicismo (in Italian). Milan: FrancoAngeli. p. 11. ISBN 978-88-568-2875-7.