Il Baretti
Il Baretti was an Italian language monthly literary magazine which was one of the publications launched and edited by Piero Gobetti. The magazine was published in Turin in the period between 1924 and 1928. The title was a reference to Giuseppe Baretti, who was an author in the eighteenth century, an exile and pre-romantic pilgrim. History and profile
Il Baretti was first published in Turin on 23 December 1924. It was the third and last publication started by Piero Gobetti. It was started as a four-page literary supplement of Gobetti's other magazine La Rivoluzione Liberale. He used the magazine to continue his critical approach towards Fascism after the closure of La Rivoluzione Liberale in 1925. Gobetti directed the magazine from its start in 1924 to until his death in February 1926. Then Santino Caramella and Piero Zanetti took over the magazine and directed it until its closure in December 1928. Il Baretti came out monthly and featured reviews and essays. Its major contributors included Leone Ginzburg, Benedetto Croce, Eugenio Montale and Gaetano Salvemini. The magazine also published translations of works by the well-known Surrealists and Dadaists, including James Joyce, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust and Charles Baudelaire. During its lifetime Il Baretti produced a total of 53 issues and also, special issues on French literature and German theater. References

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