Il Selvaggio
{{Short description|Arts and political magazine in Italy (1924–1943)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
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| editor = Mino Maccari
| editor_title = Editor-in-chief
| previous_editor = Angelo Bencini
| category = {{ubl|Arts magazine | Political magazine}}
| frequency = {{ubl|Bimonthly|Weekly|Irregular}}
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| founder = {{ubl|Angelo Bencini | Mino Maccari}}
| founded = 1924
| firstdate = 13 July 1924
| finaldate = June 1943
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| country = Italy
| based = {{ubl|Colle di Val d'Elsa | Siena | Turin | Rome}}
| language = Italian
| issn = 2420-9376
| oclc = 173994792 }}
Il Selvaggio (Italian: the Savage or the Wild One) was a political and arts magazine that existed between 1924 and 1943. It was a media outlet of an intellectual group called Strapaese (Italian: Supervillage).{{cite book|author=Ruth Ben-Ghiat|author-link=Ruth Ben-Ghiat|title=Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945|date=2001|publisher=University of California Press
|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London|isbn=978-0520242166}}
History and profile
Il Selvaggio was founded by Angelo Bencini and Mino Maccari, an Italian fascist artist and journalist, in Colle di Val d'Elsa in 1924 as a political magazine.{{cite journal|author=Lynn M. Gunzberg|title=Ruralism, Folklore, and Grazia Deledda's Novels
|journal=Modern Language Studies|date=Summer 1983|page=116|volume=13|issue=3|doi=10.2307/3194185|jstor=3194185}} The first issue of the bimonthly magazine was published on 13 July 1924.{{cite thesis|author=Alessandra Aquilanti|title=Humor in Fascist Italy|year=2015|page= |id={{ProQuest|2501173396}}|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2501173396|degree=PhD|location=Stanford University
|isbn=9798662565203|pages=166–168}} The founding director was Angiolo Bencini who held the post until 1926 when Mino Maccari succeeded him. The latter also edited the magazine.{{cite book|page=21|author1=Francesca Billiani|year=2019|author2=Laura Pennacchietti
|title=Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|s2cid=158649280|location=Cham, Switzerland
|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4|isbn=978-3-030-19427-7|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19428-4}}{{cite book|editor1=Peter Davies
|editor2=Derek Lynch|title=The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right|location=London; New York|year=2002|isbn=978-0-203-99472-6
|url=https://archive.org/details/routledgecompani00davi|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/routledgecompani00davi/page/222 222]}} It featured articles on art, politics and humor.
The format of the magazine was 50x35 cm, but was changed to 44x32 cm. It had a variable number of pages ranging from four to twelve pages. From 1926 Il Selvaggio was headquartered in Florence.{{cite journal|author=Michela Rosso|title=Il Selvaggio 1926–1942: Architectural Polemics and Invective Imagery|journal=Architectural Histories|year=2016|volume=4|issue=1|page=1
|doi=10.5334/ah.203|doi-access=free}} The same year the Fascist government forced the magazine to include cultural and satirical materials, thus making clear its goal to promote a version of an anti-intellectual version of arts. Then the magazine focused on the core of the Italian spirit observed "in the cradle of Italian civilization, namely the hills and countryside of Tuscany".{{cite journal|author=Valerio C. Ferme|title=Redefining the Aesthetics of Fascism: The battle Between the Ancients and the Moderns Revisited|journal=Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures|date=Summer 1998|volume=52|issue=2|page=74|doi=10.1080/00397709809598260}} In this period it came out weekly and acted as a representative of Tuscan rural extremism.{{cite thesis|author=Luca de Caprariis|title=Fascism and Italian foreign policy: 1922-1928|degree=PhD|isbn=978-0-591-87923-0
|location=University of Wisconsin–Madison|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/304457056|page=113|year=1998|id={{ProQuest|304457056}}}}
The editorial offices of Il Selvaggio moved to Siena in 1929 and then to Turin in 1930. In 1932 its headquarters moved to Rome.{{cite web|title=Il Selvaggio|url=http://www.scuolaromana.it/riviste/selvagg.htm|publisher=Riviste Scuola Romana
|access-date=26 September 2021|language=it}} The frequency of the magazine was also frequently changed but was mostly published irregularly. Leo Longanesi, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carrà, Mario Tinti, Manlio Malabotta, Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra, Giuseppe Pensabene and Ottone Rosai were among the leading contributors of the magazine. In 1932 Soffici published articles on his experience in Paris in the early years of the 20th century in the magazine.{{cite journal|author=Flora Ghezzo|date=January 2010
|title=Topographies of Disease and Desire: Mapping the City in Fascist Italy|journal=Modern Language Notes|volume=125|issue=1|page=205
|doi=10.1353/mln.0.0227|s2cid=161623497 }} Over time Il Selvaggio focused on artistic subjects, including architectural topics, instead of political topics. The last issue of the magazine appeared in June 1943.{{cite web|title=Il Selvaggio
|url=https://r.unitn.it/it/lett/circe/il-selvaggio|publisher=Circe|access-date=26 September 2021|language=it}}
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