La Ronda
Cover of the first issue dated April 1919
Editor-in-chiefVincenzo Cardarelli
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderLorenzo Montano
First issue23 April 1919
Final issueDecember 1923
CountryKingdom of Italy
Based inRome
LanguageItalian

La Ronda (Italian: The Round) was a literary magazine which existed in Rome, Kingdom of Italy, between April 1919 and November 1922. In December 1923 a special issue was also published.

History and profile

La Ronda was first published on 23 April 1919.[1] It was founded by the poet and writer Lorenzo Montano.[2] The magazine came out monthly and was headquartered in Rome.[3]

Vincenzo Cardarelli, Aurelio E. Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Antonio Baldini, Bruno Barilli, Emilio Cecchi and Lorenzo Montano were the members of its editorial board in the first year.[4] From the second year only Cardarelli and Saffi held the post.[1] In addition, Cardarelli served as the editor-in-chief of La Ronda.[1]

The aim of La Ronda was to reinforce a modernist literary approach supporting the values of literature understood as a style.[1][3] In the first editorial Cardarelli argued that it was time to focus on the Italian modernism which had delayed due to World War I.[5] The magazine managed to develop a literary movement which was called rondismo[3] which harshly criticized the futurism movement calling its adherents as literary destroyers.[6] La Ronda avoided taking part in political discussions.[7] Instead, it attempted to develop connections with international literary circles to make the Italian literary work much more known.[5] The magazine had an elitist approach and was not read by the masses.[1]

La Ronda had three major sections: discussion of literary and cultural affairs, major literary work and theories and review section which included both letters and reports on other magazines.[8] Notable contributors of the magazine included Guglielmo Ferrero, Vilfredo Pareto, Filippo Burzio, Giuseppe Raimondi, Alberto Savinio, Ardengo Soffici and Carlo Carrà.[6] Of them Ardengo Soffici left the magazine soon due to its apolitical stance and its insistence on returning to formal literary style.[7] La Ronda also featured translations of the work by Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Lee Masters and Thomas Hardy.[6]

The magazine ceased publication in November 1922 after producing a total of 34 issues.[4] In December 1923 a special issue was released.[4]

Solaria, a literary magazine started in 1926, was influenced from La Ronda.[9]

All issue of La Ronda were archived under the project Circe at the University of Trento.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Francesca Billiani (July 2013). "Return to order as return to realism in two Italian elite literary magazines of the 1920s and 1930s: La Ronda and Orpheus". Modern Language Review. 108 (3): 841,844. doi:10.1353/mlr.2013.0192.
  2. ↑ Jane Dunnett (2010). "Supergiallo: How Mondadori turned crime into a brand". The Italianist. 30 (1): 68. doi:10.1179/026143410X12646891556781. S2CID 143489197.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ronda, La". Treccani (in Italian).
  4. 1 2 3 4 "La Ronda" (in Italian). University of Trento. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  5. 1 2 Eric Jon Bulson (2016). Little Magazine, World Form. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 115–116. doi:10.7312/buls17976. ISBN 9780231542326.
  6. 1 2 3 Simone Germini (31 May 2013). "Riviste letterarie del Novecento – La Ronda". iMalpensanti (in Italian). Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  7. 1 2 Simona Storchi (2015). "Ardengo Soffici's "Rete mediterranea": The Aesthetics and Politics of Post-war Modernism". Annali d'Italianistica. 33: 328. JSTOR 43894808.
  8. ↑ Francesca Billiani (2023). "Geographies and Histories of World Literature in Interwar Italian Magazines". Journal of World Literature. 8 (2): 194. doi:10.1163/24056480-00802002. S2CID 259051096.
  9. ↑ Vanessa Santoro (2019). Fashioning sensibility: emotions in Gianna Manzini’s fashion journalism (MA thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 21.
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