Circoli
{{Short description|Italian literary magazine (1931–1936)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
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| category = Literary magazine
| frequency = {{ubl|Bimonthly (1931–1935)|Monthly (1935–1939)}}
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| publisher = Grafico editoriale
| founder = Adriano Grande
| founded = 1931
| firstdate = January-February 1931
| finaldate = December 1939
| finalnumber = 12
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| country = Italy
| based = Genoa
| language = Italian
| issn = 2388-3812
| oclc = 889585990 }}
Circoli was a bimonthly literary magazine published in Genoa, Italy, between 1931 and 1936. It was described as one of the most distinguished European magazines in 1934.
History and profile
Circoli was started in Genoa in 1931.{{cite journal|title=Adriano Grande|journal=Oxford Reference
|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095903351}}{{cite encyclopedia|author=Massimiliano Manganelli|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/adriano-grande_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/|title=Grande, Adriano|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|year=2002|volume=58|language=it}} Adriano Grande, an Italian poet, was the founder of the magazine, which intended to be the successor of Solaria, a literary magazine published in Turin and Florentine. Circoli was subtitled Rivista di Poesi ({{langx|it|Poetry Magazine}}) and was published on a bimonthly basis.{{cite journal|title=Recent Magazines|issue=6|journal=Poetry|date=March 1934|volume=43|jstor=20579392|author1=M. D. Z|pages=348–354}} Its publisher was Grafico editoriale. From 1935 the frequency of the magazine became monthly.{{cite web|title=Circoli rivista di poesia|url=http://digitale.bnc.roma.sbn.it/tecadigitale/giornale/RML0025496/1934/unico
|publisher=Biblioteca Digitale|language=it}}
Adriano Grande was also the director of the magazine, which published translations of the work by international authors, among others.{{cite book|author=Simone Castaldi|title=Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s|year=2010|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qE9jl8PlHYEC&pg=PR55|isbn=978-1-60473-777-6|page=55|location=Jackson, MS}} Attilio Bertolucci, Salvatore Quasimodo and Ferdinando Agnoletti were some of its contributors.{{cite web|title=Book presentation and readings|url=http://www.iicbelgrado.esteri.it/IIC_NewYork/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=790&citta=NewYork|work=Italian Cultural Institute in New York|access-date=2 May 2015|date=27 October 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052013/http://www.iicbelgrado.esteri.it/IIC_NewYork/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=790&citta=NewYork}}{{cite journal|author=Daniela La Penna|title=Habitus and Embeddedness in the Florentine Literary Field: The Case of Alberto Carocci (1926–1939)|journal=Italian Studies|volume=73|issue=2 |year=2018| doi=10.1080/00751634.2018.1444536|page=138|s2cid=218693230|doi-access=free}} During its run the magazine was supported by the press office.{{cite journal|author=Ruth Ben-Ghiat|author-link=Ruth Ben-Ghiat|title=Fascism, Writing, and Memory: The Realist Aesthetic in Italy, 1930-1950|journal=The Journal of Modern History
|date=September 1995|volume=67|issue=3|pages=627–665|doi=10.1086/245175|s2cid=143577836}} In December 1939 the magazine was closed down with the publication of the twelfth issue.{{cite web|title=Circoli: Rivista di Poesia|language=it|publisher=Fondazione Gramsci|access-date=23 January 2022|url=https://www.fondazionegramsci.org/agperiodici/circoli-rivista-di-poesia-a-1-n-1-gen-feb-1931-a-8-n-12-dic-1939-genova-s-n-1931-1939-genova-stab-grafico-editoriale-v-ill-26-cm-coll-fg-s/}}
See also
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Category:1931 establishments in Italy
Category:1939 disestablishments in Italy
Category:Bi-monthly magazines published in Italy
Category:Defunct literary magazines published in Italy
Category:Italian-language magazines
Category:Literary translation magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1931
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1939