Cronaca Vera

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| image_caption = Issue 117 (1974)The title reads: "She risked freezing to death for having excited a shy man from the valley - Beauful skier caught in the bear trap of the forester in love"

| editor = Giuseppe Biselli

| editor_title = Editor-in-chief

| frequency = Weekly

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| category = News magazine

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| publisher = New Message Uno S.r.l.

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| firstdate = 1969

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| country = Italy

| based = Piazza Erculea 5
Milano 20122

| language = Italian

| website = [http://www.cronacavera.it/ Cronaca Vera]

| issn = 1125-5544

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Cronaca Vera (Italian for True Chronicles) is a weekly, tabloid news magazine, published in Italy.

History

The magazine was founded in 1969 by entrepreneur Sergio Garassini, who had launched the monthly erotic magazine Kent.{{cite book |last=Maina |first=Giovanna |title=Play, men! Un panorama della stampa italiana per adulti (1966-1975)|publisher=Mimesis|date=2020|language=Italian|trans-title=Play, Men! A panorama of the Italian press for adults (1966-1975) |isbn= 978-8857556512}} Garassini appointed Antonio Perria, crime author and former ABC editor who had also worked at L'Unità as a crime reporter, to be the periodical's first editor-in-chief.{{cite news |last=Amedei |first=Ermanno |date=4 October 2013 |title=Lo storico settimanale Cronaca Vera approda su internet e brucia sul tempo altri giornali più… moderni |trans-title=The historic weekly Cronaca Vera lands on the internet and over time burns up other more… modern newspapers |url=https://www.ilpuntoamezzogiorno.it/2013/10/lo-storico-settimanale-cronaca-vera-approda-su-internet-e-brucia-sul-tempo-altri-giornali-piu-moderni/ |language=Italian |work=Il punto a Mezzogiorno |location=Rome|access-date=9 January 2021 }} The graphic illustrator and comics artist Maurizio Bovarini{{cite web |url=http://www.lfb.it/fff/fumetto/aut/b/bovarini.htm |title=Maurizio Bovarini |publisher= Associazione Franco Fossati, Museo del fumetto e della comunicazione|date=2003 |language=Italian|trans-title=|access-date=9 January 2021 }} was entrusted with the design of Cronaca, while he also, in the same year, started working as editor at the Italian edition of Hara-Kiri magazine.{{cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bovarini_maurizio.htm|title=Maurizio Bovarini |publisher=Lambiek|location=Amsterdam|date=2010|access-date=9 January 2021 }}

Content

The magazine is printed in "low-quality paper" and costs one euro. An issue typically contains from about a dozen up to fifteen reports ranging from local news to crime, from stories of everyday violence to controversies. It contains columns such as Il Racconto Giallo/Nero (Tales of Yellow/Black)The word giallo in Italian signifies not just the color yellow but also mystery fiction and thrillers. See Giallo. with crime stories, or I Misteri del Sesso (The Mysteries of Sex), where readers write in about their sexual problems. Its titles, in "jarring yellows and reds," are considered by Vice magazine to be "wonderful."{{cite news |last=Small |first=Tim |date=5 January 2008 |title=La vera cronaca di Cronaca Vera|trans-title=The true chronicle of the True Chronicles|url=https://www.vice.com/it/article/la-vera-cronaca-di-cronaca-vera/|language=Italian |website=Vice Italia|location= |access-date=9 January 2021 }}

Cronaca Vera is considered "a lurid tabloid" by some critics,{{cite book |editor-last2=Rinaldi|editor-first2=Lucia |editor-last1=Gundle |editor-first1=Stephen |title=Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |date=7 November 2007|page=170 |isbn=978-1349539444}} although its covers are for others "unmissable",{{cite news |date=25 November 2014|title=Cronaca Vera e la suora che ha abusato di una 12enne|trans-title=Cronaca Vera and the nun who abused a 12 year olda|url=https://www.nextquotidiano.it/cronaca-vera-suora-abusato-12enne/|language=Italian |work=Next Quotidiano |access-date=9 January 2021 }} while for the mayoralty of Ribera, Agrigento, the magazine is "prestigious."{{cite web|url=http://www.comune.ribera.ag.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2848 |title=Il successo della 1o edizione del Pizza Fest su Cronaca Vera|publisher=Mayor's Cabinet Office |date=27 October 2010 |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=Italian|trans-title=The success of the 1st Pizza Festival occasion in Cronaca Vera}}

Popularity

In the mid-1970s, Cronaca was selling approximately 600 thousand issues every week. Editor-in-chief Giuseppe Biselli contends that the magazine receives "approximately 20,000 letters" from readers every year.{{cite news |date=30 January 2012 |title=L'Italia di Cronaca Vera |trans-title=The Italy of Cronaca Vera|url=http://www.comune.ribera.ag.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2848|language=Italian |work=Il Post |access-date=9 January 2021 }} He agrees with the finding that it is the most popular publication among prison inmates.