Sapere

Sapere was established by the Italian publisher Ulrico Hoepli in 1935.{{cite web|title=Sapere|website=edizioni Dedalo

|url=https://edizionidedalo.it/riviste/riviste-attive/sapere|access-date=7 October 2023|language=it}} The magazine is published by the Edizioni Dedalo on a bimonthly basis.{{cite web|author1=Alessandro Frandi|title=Sapere, prima rivista italiana di divulgazione|url=https://almanacco.cnr.it/articolo/176/sapere-prima-rivista-italiana-di-divulgazione

|website=almanacco.cnr.it|access-date=7 October 2023|language=it}} Sapere came out monthly during the 1970s.{{cite book|author=Angelo Baracca|display-authors=et. al.|editor1=Elisabetta Bini|editor2=Igor Londero|title=Nuclear Italy An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War|year=2017|publisher=EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste|location=Trieste|isbn=978-88-8303-813-6|page=220|hdl=10077/15343|chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/10077/15343|chapter=The Role of Physics Students at the University of Florence in the Early Italian Anti-nuclear Movements (1975-1987)}} It is based in Rome.{{cite web|title=Sapere|website=cric-rivisteculturali.it

|date=2 July 2018|language=it|url=https://www.cric-rivisteculturali.it/prodotto/sapere/|access-date=7 October 2023}}

Sapere features articles on science, news, reviews, and contains graphic novels and photography. The magazine has used extensive illustrations and photographs since its start in 1935.{{cite journal|author=Enrica Battifoglia|title=Popularised science communication modes in Italian popular science magazines (1788-2002)|journal=Journal of Science Communication|volume=3|issue=1|year=2004

|doi=10.22323/2.03010201|page=11|doi-access=free}} In the 1940s its target audience was those who were interested in the interdisciplinarity of scientific knowledge and modernist culture.{{cite journal|author=Alessandro Ferraro|author2=Marco Tamborini|title=Abstraction in Contemporary Visual Culture as an Interplay between Imagination, Image and Scientific Knowledge|journal=Visual Resources|volume=37|issue=2|year=2021| doi=10.1080/01973762.2023.2186768|page=146|s2cid=258410968 }}

One of the early contributors of the magazine was Guido Landra who wrote articles containing the results of his race studies.{{cite journal| author=Aaron Gillette|title=The origins of the 'Manifesto of racial scientists'|journal=Journal of Modern Italian Studies|volume=6|issue=3| year=2001|doi=10.1080/13545710110084253|page=308|s2cid=146603137}} Its other contributors included Enrico Fermi, Guglielmo Marconi, Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, Giulio Maccacaro and Carlo Bernardini who were scientists.{{cite web|title=Sapere, i suoi primi sessant'anni|url=https://sapere.galileonet.it/#|website=Sapere|access-date=7 October 2023|language=it}}

Sapere covered propaganda materials in the Fascist period one of which was about Japanese identity culture.{{cite journal|author1=Sergio Raimondo|author2=Valentina De Fortuna|author3=Giulia Ceccarelli|title=Bushido as allied: The Japanese warrior in the cultural production of Fascist Italy (1940-1943)|journal=Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas|date=July-December 2017

|volume=12|issue=2|page=88|doi=10.18002/rama.v12i2.5157|doi-access=free}} The magazine featured an extract from Beaumont Newhall’s article entitled The New Abstract Vision in 1947.

A group of the writers from Il manifesto joined the magazine in the mid-1970s. They were led by Giulio Alfredo Maccacaro who was made editor-in-chief of Sapere.{{cite journal|author=Fabio Lusito|title=«Diamo l'assalto al cielo!» («Let's assault the sky»): science communication between scientists and citizens and Lombardo Radice's television in Italy in the years of the protests

|journal=Journal of Science Communication|volume=19|issue=3|year=2020|doi=10.22323/2.19030203|page=6|s2cid=225709282|doi-access=free}} The members of the group published articles about the history and critics of science from 1978.{{cite journal|author=Elena Formia|title=Mediating an Ecological Awareness in Italy: Shared Visions of Sustainability Between the Environmental Movement and Radical Design Cultures (1970–1976)|issue=2|year=2017|doi=10.1093/jdh/epw051|journal=Journal of Design History|volume=30|page=197}}{{cite journal|author1=Angelo Baracca|author2=Silvio Bergia|author3=Flavio Del Santo|title=The origins of the research on the foundations of quantum mechanics (and other critical activities) in Italy during the 1970s|page=77|doi=10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.11.003|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science|volume=57|year=2017|arxiv=1608.05197|bibcode=2017SHPMP..57...66B|s2cid=118435754}} Another topic of their articles was the interaction between politics and ecology which contributed to raise the level of the political-ecological awareness among Italians.{{cite book |author=Barca |first=Stefania |title=Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2014 |isbn=9781782382379 |editor1=Boudia |editor-first=Soraya |editor-link=Soraya Boudia |volume=2 |location=New York; Oxford |page=127 |chapter=Work, Bodies, Militancy The “Class Ecology” Debate in 1970s Italy |doi=10.1515/9781782382379-008 |editor2=Jas |editor-first2=Nathalie |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382379-008}} The group domainated the magazine until 1982. In the 1980s Massimo Pigliucci was a regular contributor of Sapere.{{cite journal|volume=51|year=1997|issue=5|page=1695|title=Announcements|journal=Evolution|doi=10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01495.x|s2cid=221729154|doi-access=free}}

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