Botteghe Oscure
Categoriesliterary journal
FounderMarguerite Caetani
Founded1948
Final issue1960
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian, French, English, German, Spanish
OCLC1536926

Botteghe Oscure was a literary journal that was published and edited in Rome by Marguerite Caetani (Princess di Bassiano) from 1948 to 1960.

History and profile

Botteghe Oscure was established in 1948.[1][2] The magazine was named after Rome’s via delle Botteghe Oscure (Latin: Ad Apothecas Obscuras), where the editorial office was located;[1] during the Middle Ages the street's "dark shops" came to be installed under the dark arches of the Circus Flaminius (illustration of a street sign).

The review was published twice a year with poetry and prose in five languages (Italian, French and English, and alternating issues featuring German and Spanish-language segments. It was distributed in the United States through Farrar, Straus & Young and the Gotham Book Mart.[3]

Giorgio Bassani was an editor.[4] Later Eugene Walter moved from Paris to Rome to edit the magazine for Marguerite Chapin Caetani who also founded and edited the magazine.[2] The publication of the magazine ended in 1960.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Helen Barolini. "The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops". VQR. No. Spring 1998. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Lorenzo M. Salvagni (2013). In the Garden of Letters: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review Botteghe Oscure (PhD thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. doi:10.17615/qxd3-0x37.
  3. ↑ Bogan, Louise. (19 September 1953)."Books" The New Yorker
  4. ↑ Karl Ludwig Selig (September 1956). "The Cultural Periodicals in Italy, 1945-1950". Italica. 33 (3): 211. JSTOR 477345.
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