Il Baretti
Il Baretti was a monthly Italian literary magazine published in Turin from 1924 to 1928. It was started and edited by Piero Gobetti and named after the eighteenth‑century writer Giuseppe Baretti. The magazine began as a four‑page literary supplement to Gobetti’s La Rivoluzione Liberale and carried reviews, essays, and translations.
Key facts:
- First issue: 23 December 1924; final issue: December 1928; a total of 53 issues plus special issues on French literature and German theater.
- It continued Gobetti’s critical stance against Fascism after La Rivoluzione Liberale closed in 1925.
- Gobetti led the magazine until his death in February 1926; Augusto Monti then took over, followed by Santino Caramella and Piero Zanetti, who ran it until it closed.
- Major contributors included Leone Ginzburg, Benedetto Croce, Eugenio Montale, Gaetano Salvemini; Massimo Mila began as a music critic in 1928.
- Il Baretti published translations of works by surrealist and dadaist writers such as James Joyce, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and Charles Baudelaire.
- The magazine helped promote European ideas and culture.
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