Leonardo (Italian magazine)

Philosophy and literary magazine in Italy (1903–1907)

LeonardoEditor| Giovanni Papini

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Categories|

* Philosophy magazine
* Literary magazine

Frequency| Irregular
Founder| Giovanni Papini
Founded| 1903
First issue| January 1903
Final issue| 1907
Country| Italy
Based in| Florence
Language| Italian

Leonardo was a philosophy magazine published in the early twentieth century in Florence, Italy, between 1903 and 1907.[1] It was one of the publications started by Giovanni Papini and contributed by Giuseppe Prezzolini. The magazine is also one of the periodicals which contributed to the cultural basis of the early forms of Fascism.[2]

## History and profile

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Leonardo was started in Florence in January 1903.[3][4] One of its founders was Giovanni Papini who also edited the magazine.[3] It came out irregularly.[3] Significant contributors included Giuseppe Prezzolini, Mario Calderoni, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Emilio Cecchi and Giovanni Amendola who also financed the magazine which featured articles on philosophical reviews and also, on literature and arts.[5][6] They were called the leonardiani.[7]

The front page of the first issue contained a synthetic program which indicated the stance of the contributors, namely personalism and idealism.[5] They regarded themselves as being superior to any system and to every limit.[5] In addition, the magazine frequently covered articles attacking positivism, particularly during the early years.[4] Official philosophical stance of the magazine appeared to be pragmatism at the end of the first year of existence.[5]

Leonardo was closed by Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini in 1907 due to the fact that it was becoming a commercial and mainstream publication because of its popularity and success.[3][4]

## References

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1. ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson, eds. (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 356\. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
2. ^ Maciej Urbanowski (2011). "Stanisław Brzozowski and fascism". Studies in East European Thought. 63 (4): 308. doi:10.1007/s11212-011-9152-0. S2CID 154920326.
3. ^ a b c d Anna Baldini (2018). "Allies and Enemies: Periodicals as Instruments of Conflict in the Florentine Avant-garde (1903–15)". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 3 (1): 7–11\. doi:10.21825/jeps.v3i1.8103. S2CID 158629464.
4. ^ a b c Carlo L. Golino (March 1955). "Giovanni Papini and American Pragmatism". Italica. 35 (1): 39–40, 43. doi:10.2307/477175. JSTOR 477175.
5. ^ a b c d E. Paul Colella (2005). "Reflex Action and the Pragmatism of Giovanni Papini". The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 19 (3): 191, 195, 211. doi:10.1353/jsp.2005.0018. JSTOR 25670568. S2CID 170803393.
6. ^ William James (June 1906). "G. Papini and the Pragmatist Movement in Italy". The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. 3 (13): 337–341\. doi:10.2307/2011869. JSTOR 2011869.
7. ^ Walter L. Adamson (2004). "Modernism in Florence: The Politics of Avant-Garde Culture in the Early Twentieth Century". In Luca Somigli; Mario Moroni (eds.). Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde. Toronto; Buffalo, NY; London: University of Toronto Press. p. 227\. ISBN 9781442623385.

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Giovanni Papini

Essays and monographs|

* Il crepuscolo dei filosofi (1906)
* The Story of Christ (1921)
* The Devil (1953)

Novels|

* A Man — Finished (1913)
* Gog (1931)
* Il libro nero (1951)

Magazine|

* Leonardo (1903–1907)

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