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Tempo
Cover of the first issue, June 1939
Former editors
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1939
First issue9 June 1939
Final issue1976
Company
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian
ISSN1128-2959
OCLC436686743

Tempo (Italian: Time) was an illustrated weekly news magazine published in Milan, Italy, between 1939 and 1976 with a temporary interruption during World War II.

History and profile[edit]

Tempo was first published on 9 June 1939,[1][2] being the first full colour illustrated Italian magazine.[3] It was subtitled as Settimanale di politica, informazione, letteratura e arte (Italian: Political, informational, literary and art weekly).[4] The founding company was Mondadori.[2] The magazine was modelled on the American magazines Life[2] and Newsweek.[5]

The headquarters of Tempo was in Milan.[6] By 1942 The magazine had editions published in eight different languages,[2] including Albanian, Croatian, French, Greek, Rumanian, Spanish, German and Hungarian.[7] The German edition existed between 1940 and 1943 and was also published by Mondadori.[4]

On 8 September 1943 Tempo stopped publication following the occupation of northern Italy by German army during World War II.[3][8] Mondadori sold the magazine to Aldo Palazzi in 1946.[9] Then the magazine was relaunched and was both owned and published by Palazzi.[6][10] During this period it held a centrist political stance.[6] In the 1950s Tempo was less sentimental and adopted a progressive and secular political stance.[11]

Tempo sold 500,000 copies in 1955 making it one of the most read magazines in Italy.[12] In the 1960s the magazine frequently carried political and news articles with moderate and conservative tones.[13] In 1976 the magazine ceased publication.[14]

Editors and contributors[edit]

Tempo was edited by Alberto Mondadori, son of Arnoldo Mondadori.[7][15] Indro Montanelli was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine.[7] From its start in 1939 to September 1943 Bruno Munari served as the art director for the magazine and for another Mondadori title, Grazia.[16][17] The early contributors for Tempo were Massimo Bontempelli, Curzio Malaparte,[9] Lamberti Sorrentino, and Salvatore Quasimodo.[8] In the late 1960s Pier Paolo Pasolini was the editor of an advice column named Il caos (Italian: Chaos).[18] The magazine also included the work by photographers John Philiphs who previously worked for Life, and Federico Patellani.[8]

Content[edit]

Major sections of the magazine included politics, news, literature and art.[3] Although it was modeled on Life, unlike it Tempo covered much more political topics.[3]

The cover of its 22nd issue (dated 16–22 June 1946) became the symbol of the freshly-proclaimed Italian Republic. The photo, taken by the magazine's photographer Federico Patellani (1911–1977), features a smiling young woman holding an issue of Corriere della Sera newspaper with the headline "È nata la repubblica Italiana" (Italian: The Italian republic is born), with her head sticking out through the newspaper.[19] The woman was identified in 2016 as Anna Iberti (1922–1997), who at the time worked as a clerk in administration in the socialist newspaper Avanti!.[20][21]

In 1948 Tempo published the interview with the Italian bandit Salvatore Giuliano by the American journalist Michael Stern which was originally published in True magazine in 1947.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1940s/1950s/Early 1960s Italian People's Magazines". Listal. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Guido Bonsaver (2007). Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-8020-9496-4.
  3. ^ a b c d Alessandro Colizzi (Spring 2013). "Milan's anarchic Modernist". Eye Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. ^ a b Anna Antonello (2016). "The Milan-Hamburg axis: Italy for German readers (1940-1944)". Modern Italy. 21 (2): 125–126. doi:10.1017/mit.2016.10. S2CID 148426427.
  5. ^ Adam Arvidsson (2003). Marketing Modernity: Italian Advertising from Fascism to Postmodernity. New York: Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 978-1138880023.
  6. ^ a b c Gabriella Ciampi de Claricini (February 1965). "Topical weeklies in Italy". International Communication Gazette. 11 (1): 12–26. doi:10.1177/001654926501100102. S2CID 220894320.
  7. ^ a b c Ignazio Weiss (May 1960). "The Illustrated Newsweeklies in Italy". International Communication Gazette. 6 (2): 169–179. doi:10.1177/001654926000600207. S2CID 144855215.
  8. ^ a b c "La Rivista Tempo". Romano Archives. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  9. ^ a b Sanna Kristiina Salo. "The propaganda discourses used by Oggi and Tempo in Italy during the right-wing power consolidation 1950-1953" (PDF). University of Oulu. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  10. ^ J. H. Schacht (March 1970). "Italian Weekly Magazines Bloom Wildly but Need Pruning". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 47 (1): 138–141. doi:10.1177/107769907004700119. S2CID 144061856.
  11. ^ a b Jonathan Dunnage (2022). "Sicilian Bandits and the Italian state: Narratives about Crime and (in)Security in the Post-War Italian Press, 1948 – 1950". Cultural and Social History. 19 (2): 188, 190. doi:10.1080/14780038.2021.2002500. S2CID 244294027.
  12. ^ Luisa Cigognetti; Lorenza Servetti (1996). "'On her side': female images in Italian cinema and the popular press, 1945–1955". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 16 (4): 556. doi:10.1080/01439689600260541.
  13. ^ Laura Ciglioni (2017). "Italian Public Opinion in the Atomic Age: Mass-market Magazines Facing Nuclear Issues (1963–1967)". Cold War History. 17 (3): 205–221. doi:10.1080/14682745.2017.1291633. S2CID 157614168.
  14. ^ "Publishing in Milan". Storie Milanesi. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  15. ^ David Forgacs; Stephen Gundle (2007). Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-253-21948-0.
  16. ^ "Bruno Munari: art director, 1943-1944". Domus. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  17. ^ Joan Roman Resina (April 2011). "Magazines, Modernity and War (review)". Modernism/modernity. 18 (2): 460. doi:10.1353/mod.2011.0034. S2CID 143889463.
  18. ^ Emma Baron (2018). Popular High Culture in Italian Media, 1950–1970. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 55. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90963-9_3. ISBN 978-3-319-90963-9.
  19. ^ Tempo 15-06-1946, Flickr, 30 December 2017, retrieved 30 July 2022
  20. ^ Bianca Petrucci (22 May 2021). "The mystery behind the girl of the Repubblica". Il Confronto Quotidiano. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  21. ^ "Storia di Anna, la ragazza simbolo della Repubblica Italiana". La Repubblica (in Italian). 24 April 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

External links[edit]

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