Comunità
CategoriesCultural magazine
Frequency
  • Weekly
  • Bimonthly
PublisherEdizioni di Comunità
FounderAdriano Olivetti
First issue1946
Final issueDecember 1960
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian

Comunità (Italian: Community) was a cultural magazine published in Rome, Italy. The magazine was in circulation between 1946 and 1960.

History and profile

Comunità was established by Adriano Olivetti in 1946.[1][2][3] It was the cultural publication of the Community Movement, which was also founded by Olivetti.[1] The magazine was based in Rome and was published by Edizioni di Comunità on a weekly basis.[4][5] It was also headquartered in Milan and was published on a bimonthly basis in the mid-1950s.[6] It featured articles on major political and cultural topics.[7] It also covered the topics of city planning, designing, literature, music, cinema and figurative arts.[6]

Comunità supported the development of the community.[8] The magazine was most read by people interested in social and cultural events and in political philosophy.[8] It was frequently distributed free to libraries and several institutions.[8] Its paid circulation was nearly 1,000 copies in 1955.[8] The magazine ceased publication in December 1960.[4]

The complete collection of the magazine is available at the Library of the Adriano Olivetti Foundation.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Paola Bonifazio (2008). Narrating Modernization: Documentary Films in Cold War Italy (1948–1955) (PhD thesis). New York University. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-549-81458-0. ProQuest 304526201.
  2. ↑ Giulia Albanese (2009). "Searching for Antifascism: Historiography, the Crisis of the Liberal State and the Birth of Fascism and Antifascism in Italy, Spain and Portugal". In Stefania Lucamante (ed.). Italy and the Bourgeoisie: The re-thinking of a class. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8386-4202-3.
  3. ↑ Gino Moliterno, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London; New York: Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-134-75877-7.
  4. 1 2 3 "La revista Comunità". Fondazione Adriano Olivetti (in Italian). Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "One day visit in Ivrea" (PDF). Adriano Olivetti Foundation. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  6. 1 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.
  7. ↑ "Catalog". John Benjamins. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 David A. Rees, ed. (2011). The Ethnographic Moment. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4128-0904-7.
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