Giornale per i bambini (Italian for 'Newspaper for children') was an Italian weekly periodical published in the 1880s by Tipografia dei Fratelli Bencini and later Tipografia Bodoniana.[1] It first appeared as an insert in Fanfulla della domenica in 1881,[2] and established as an independent publication later that year by Ferdinando Martini, who was also the periodical's first editor. The target audience was children between the ages of 6 and 12.[3] The publication was owned by Ernesto Emanuele Oblieght, a Hungarian financier who also owned a number of other children's publications.[3]
 The 21 December 1882 issue | |
| Frequency | Weekly |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Tipografia dei Fratelli Bencini Tipografia Bodoniana |
| Founder | Ferdinando Martini |
| First issue | 7 July 1881 |
| Final issue | June 1889 |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The first issue was published on 7 July 1881, in which appeared the first installment of the serial novel by Carlo Collodi with the title La storia di un burattino (Italian for 'The story of a puppet').[4] Over the next four months, eight more installments were published covering 15 chapters. This was followed by a hiatus of three months, after which the story resumed on 16 February 1882 as The Adventures of Pinocchio until its completion in January 1883.[4]
Subscribers received a gift with the December 1883 issue, an Italian translation of the 1879 supplement to the George Weatherly book The "Little Folks" Painting Book.[5]
Martini was officially succeeded as editor by Collodi, who held the position from 1883 to 1885.[3] However, author and journalist Emma Perodi executed most of the editorial duties, but was not officially recognized in that role until 1887.[3]
The last issue was published on 26 June 1889,[2] after which the periodical and its staff was merged into Giornale dei fanciulli.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Il giornale per i bambini". Letteratura dimenticata. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Giornale per i bambini". Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Biernacka-Licznar, Katarzyna (2017). "La vera storia del "Giornale per i bambini"". University of Wrocław. pp. 213–218. doi:10.15804/IW.2017.08.11.
- ^ a b "Le avventure di Pinocchio" [The Adventures of Pinocchio] (in Italian). Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ Loparco, Fabiana (2016). "Il Giornale per i Bambini: storia del primo grande periodico per l'infanzia italiana (1881-1889)" [The Giornale per i Bambini: story of the first great Italian children's periodical] (in Italian). Pontedera: Bibliografia e Informazione. ISBN 978-88-909833-5-1.
Further reading
edit- Tavosanis, Mirko; Gadducci, Fabio (2011). "Printers, Poets, Publishers and Painters: The First Years of the Giornale per i bambini". In Hallamore Caesar, Ann; Romani, Gabriella; Burns, Jennifer (eds.). The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351193597.