Il Borghese

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Il Borghese is a monthly cultural and political magazine with a right-wing stance published in Rome, Italy. The magazine has been in circulation since 1950{{Cite web |title=Leo Longanesi |url=https://www.longanesi.it/autori/leo-longanesi/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Casa Editrice Longanesi |language=it-IT}} and is named after the conservative Borghese family.{{cite web|author=Steven Heller|title=A Clever Magazine of the Right|url=https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/borghese-a-clever-magazine-of-the-right/|work=Great Infographics|access-date=2 May 2015|date=10 June 2014}} and published until 1993. The newspaper has resumed publication several times for short periods. Since 2007 it has been published by the publishing house Pagine.

History and profile

Il Borghese was established by Leo Longanesi in 1950.{{cite book|editor2=Luca Somigli|editor1=Paolo Puppa|page=980

|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA980|year=2006|publisher=Routledge

|isbn=978-1-135-45530-9|location=New York; London}} He founded other magazines such as L’Italiano and Omnibus. Il Borghese is published weekly and has a right-wing and conservative stance.{{cite book|author=Sergio Luzzatto|title=The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h4x-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT133|year=2014|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|isbn=978-1-4668-8360-4|page=133|location=New York}}

Leo Longanesi and Indro Montanelli were the early co-editors of Il Borghese.{{cite news|author=John Francis Lane|title=Obituary: Indro Montanelli|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/24/guardianobituaries1|access-date=2 May 2015|work=The Guardian|date=24 June 2001}} The former held the post until his death in 1957.{{cite web|title=Leo Longanesi, four male characters|work=Mattia Jona|access-date=2 May 2015|url=http://www.mattiajona.com/schede/longanesi2.html}} The other early contributors include Giovanni Ansaldo, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Giovanni Spadolini, Mario Tedeschi, Alberto Savinio, Ennio Flaiano, Colette Rosselli, Irene Brin, Goffredo Parise and Mario Missiroli.{{cite web|title=Longanesi Leo 1905–1957|url=https://artslife.com/history/2014/11/longanesi-leo-1905-1957/|publisher=Arts Life History|access-date=26 September 2021|language=it|date=November 2014}}

In the 1950s the magazine was close to Christian Democracy Party.{{cite news|author=Belardelli Giovanni|title=«Il Borghese» nella destra che non c' era|work=Corriere della Sera|access-date=2 May 2015|date=9 October 2002|language=it

|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2002/ottobre/09/Borghese_nella_destra_che_non_co_0_0210092627.shtml}} However, its support ended when Longanesi argued that the party was too weak to counter the "communist threat". Il Borghese was closed down in 2001.{{cite web|author=Claudio Ciani|title=Il ritorno de Il Borghese rivista mensile di contro informazione|language=it|work=Riscossa Cristiana|url=http://www.riscossacristiana.it/il-ritorno-de-il-borghese-rivista-mensile-di-contro-informazione-anticipazioni-dal-prossimo-numero-in-edicola-dal-1d-dicembre-di-claudio-ciani/|access-date=2 May 2015|date=21 November 2012}} It was relaunched in Rome in December 2012.

Directors

Leo Longanesi (15 March 1950 – September 1957)

Mario Tedeschi (September 1957 – 8 November 1993)

Gianna Preda, Deputy Editor-in-ChiefNel 1972 Mario Tedeschi fu eletto al Parlamento. La legge italiana sulla stampa (legge n. 47/1948) prevede che, "quando il direttore [di una testata giornalistica] sia investito di mandato parlamentare, deve essere nominato un vice direttore, che assume la qualità di responsabile" (art. 3).

Luciano Cirri, Deputy Editor-in-ChiefNel 1972 Mario Tedeschi fu eletto al Parlamento. La legge italiana sulla stampa (legge n. 47/1948) prevede che, "quando il direttore [di una testata giornalistica] sia investito di mandato parlamentare, deve essere nominato un vice direttore, che assume la qualità di responsabile" (art. 3).

Vincenzo Maddaloni (June 1994 – 19 August 1994)

Suspension of publications: August 1994 – April 1997

Daniele Vimercati (5 April 1997 – 20 May 1998)

Federico Guiglia (21 May – 31 August 1998)

Vittorio Feltri (1 September 1998 – June 1999)

Suspension of publications: 2000 – 2007

Claudio Tedeschi (2007 – March 2021)

Giuseppe Sanzotta (March 2021 – in office){{cite web|access-date=6 February 2022 |title=Giuseppe Sanzotta: “grandi gruppi finanziari dominano l’informazione” |url=https://www.informazionecattolica.it/2021/04/15/giuseppe-sanzotta-neo-direttore-de-il-borghese-grandi-gruppi-finanziari-dominano-linformazione/}}