Campo di Marte (magazine)

*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

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

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Vasco Pratolini". Italica Press. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b Emiliana P. Noether (December 1971). "Italian Intellectuals under Fascism". The Journal of Modern History. 43 (4): 646. doi:10.1086/240685. S2CID 144377549.
^ Damien Simonis (2006). Florence. Lonely Planet. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-74059-809-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ ^a ^b Peter Bondanella; Julia Conway Bondanella, eds. (2001). Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature. London: A&C Black. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-304-70464-4.
^ "Vasco Pratolini". Encyclopædia Britannica.

[itpress-1] "Vasco Pratolini". Italica Press. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

[emil-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.

[agu-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.

[pbon-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.

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