Quaderni piacentini (Italian: Piacenza Notebooks) was a leftist political and cultural magazine which was published in Piacenza, Italy, between 1962 and 1984 with some interruptions. The magazine was one of the theoretical-political media outlets of the New Left[1] and was one of the early publications with a pro-Chinese stance in Italy.[2]
| Categories |
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|---|---|
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Final issue | 1984 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Piacenza |
| Language | Italian |
History and profile
editQuaderni piacentini was founded by Piergiorgio Bellocchio and Grazia Cherchi in Piacenza in 1962.[3][4] It followed the tradition of Il Politecnico, a Milan-based Communist cultural and literary magazine published between 1945 and 1947.[5]
Quaderni piacentini was published bimonthly until 1980[6] and ceased publication in 1984.[4] The magazine was directed by Piergiorgio Bellocchio.[6] From 1971 it was directed by a management committee.[6] The magazine covered articles on the student movement of 1968 and on criticism of capitalist society.[6] After 1965 it began to feature discussions about the American civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.[4]
The contributors of Quaderni piacentini were critical of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and other leading communist groups of the period in Italy.[3] The reason for this opposition against the PCI was the party's nonrevolutionary policy.[4] Although the Quaderni piacentini writers did not have a homogenous ideology, they were all adherents of the anti-moderate, anti-reformism and libertarianism.[4] They also had a pro-Chinese stance.[2] Notable contributors of Quaderni piacentini included Franco Fortini,[2] Goffredo Fofi, Giovanni Giudici[6] and Alberto Asor Rosa.[4] The magazine was read mostly by leftist university students.[5] In 1968 and 1970 it managed to sell 13,000 copies.[4][5]
There are some books about Quaderni piacentini,[5] one of which was published by Giacomo Pontremoli in 2017.[3]
References
edit- ^ Valdo Spini (January–April 1972). "The New Left in Italy". Journal of Contemporary History. 7 (1–2): 58. doi:10.1177/002200947200700103. JSTOR 259757.
- ^ a b c Marco Gabbas (2022). "The origins of Italian Maoism". The Global Sixties. 15 (1–2): 81, 86. doi:10.1080/27708888.2022.2144248.
- ^ a b c Matteo Marchesini (June 2017). "Sui "Quaderni piacentini"" (in Italian). Il blog di Claudio Giunta. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g Fabio Guidali (2020). "Culture and political commitment in the nonorthodox Marxist Left: the case of Quaderni piacentini in pre-1968 Italy". History of European Ideas. 46 (6): 862–875. doi:10.1080/01916599.2020.1756892.
- ^ a b c d "Piergiorgio Bellocchio e i Quaderni piacentini". La letteratura e noi (in Italian). 3 August 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Quaderni piacentini". Treccani (in Italian).