Novella 2000

Italian women's and celebrity magazine

Novella 2000Categories|

* Women's magazine
* Celebrity magazine

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Frequency| Weekly
Circulation| 3,700 (June 2023)
Publisher| RCS Pubblicià
Founded| 1919; 106 years ago (1919)
Company| RCS MediaGroup
Country| Italy
Based in| Milan
Language| Italian
Website| Novella 2000
ISSN| 1120-4443
OCLC| 317934485

Novella 2000 is a weekly celebrity and women's magazine published in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest publications in the country. It is also one of the most read and well-known Italian gossip magazines.

## History and profile

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It was established as a literary magazine with the name Novella (Italian: Short Story) in 1919.[1][2] The magazine was started as a notebook-sized publication, and the publisher was Casa Editrice Italia.[3] As of 1926 it was published on a monthly basis, and its editor was Guido Cantini.[4] In 1927 the magazine was acquired by the Rizzoli,[5][6] now RCS MediaGroup, which is still the owner of the magazine.[7][8][9] Like other Rizzoli magazines it was printed in a certain color which was purple for Novella.[10] During this period it featured fiction narratives and short stories.[10] It also published work by Italian intellectuals, including Gabriele D’Annunzio and Luigi Pirandello.[11] Filippo Piazzi contributed to the magazine between 1934 and 1935.[12]

The magazine was relaunched in 1967 as a gossip magazine.[13][14] This drastic transformation which was done by the director of the magazine, Guido Cantini, was a business success.[11] Following this the magazine began to publish a monthly supplement entitled I Romanzi di Novella which was a best-selling romance series.[11]

Novella 2000 is published by RCS Pubblicià, magazine division of RCS MediaGroup, on a weekly basis in Milan[15][16] and features articles on celebrity gossip and scandalous events.[17] Its content is mostly accompanied by paparazzi photographs.[3] The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which published Lady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.[3]

### Circulation

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The circulation of the magazine was 300,000 copies in the period 1952–1953.[18] In 1984 Novella 2000 had a circulation of 365,256 copies.[19] From December 2002 to November 2003 its average circulation was down to 174,095 copies.[20] In 2007 the weekly sold 146,030 copies.[21][22]

## See also

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* List of magazines in Italy

## References

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1. ^ Jennifer A. Myers (2011). Everybody's Woman: Gender, Genre, and Transnational Intermediality in Inter-War Italy (PhD thesis). University of Washington. p. 62\. ISBN 978-1-124-84509-8. ProQuest 888160875.
2. ^ "1940s/1950s/Early 1960s Italian Women's Magazines". Listal. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
3. ^ a b c Andrew Whittaker, ed. (2010). Italy: Be Fluent in Italian Life and Culture. Thorogood Publishing. p. 225\. ISBN 978-1-85418-628-7.
4. ^ Gabriella Bosano (November 1926). "Current Italian Periodicals". Italica. 3 (4): 83. JSTOR 476108.
5. ^ David Forgacs; Stephen Gundle (2007). Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 99\. ISBN 978-0-253-21948-0.
6. ^ Deirdre Pirro (29 September 2011). "Angelo Rizzoli. From magazines to movies". The Florentine (149).
7. ^ Fabrizio Tonello (2007). "The Italian Media Landscape". In Georgios Terzis (ed.). European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions. Bristol; Chicago, IL: Intellect Books. p. 242\. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5.
8. ^ Diego Ceccobelli; Antonio Ciaglia; Marco Mazzoni (14 December 2012). "Berlusconi's Pop-Politics: When the Private and Public Spheres Converge" (Conference paper). University of Salford. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
9. ^ Marco Mazzoni; Antonio Ciaglia (2013). "How Italian politics goes popular: Evidence from an empirical analysis of gossip magazines and TV shows". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 17 (4): 381–398\. doi:10.1177/1367877913496199. S2CID 153639453.381-398&rft.date=2013&rft_id=info:doi/10.1177/1367877913496199&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153639453#id-name=S2CID&rft.au=Marco+Mazzoni&rft.au=Antonio+Ciaglia&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Novella+2000" class="Z3988">
10. ^ a b Irene Piazzoni (Summer 2020). "Shaping a Weekly 'For Everyone': Italian Rotocalchi Entre-Deux-Guerres". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 5 (1): 31. doi:10.21825/jeps.v5i1.16525. hdl:2434/761032. S2CID 225721009.
11. ^ a b c Fabio Guidali (Winter 2019). "Developing Middlebrow Culture in Fascist Italy: The Case of Rizzoli's Illustrated Magazines". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 4 (2): 106–121\. doi:10.21825/jeps.v4i2.10774. hdl:2434/740036. S2CID 213408933.106-121&rft.date=2019&rft_id=info:hdl/2434/740036&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:213408933#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.21825/jeps.v4i2.10774&rft.au=Fabio+Guidali&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Novella+2000" class="Z3988">
12. ^ Maria Antonella Pelizzari (2015). "Make-believe: fashion and Cinelandia in Rizzoli's Lei (1933–38)". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 20 (1): 41. doi:10.1080/1354571X.2014.973153. S2CID 144013857.
13. ^ Antonio Ciaglia; Marco Mazzoni (2014). "Pop-politics in times of crisis: The Italian tabloid press during Mario Monti's government". European Journal of Communication. 29 (4): 449–464\. doi:10.1177/0267323114529535. S2CID 144183208.449-464&rft.date=2014&rft_id=info:doi/10.1177/0267323114529535&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144183208#id-name=S2CID&rft.au=Antonio+Ciaglia&rft.au=Marco+Mazzoni&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Novella+2000" class="Z3988">
14. ^ Ilaria Parini (2008). "Domesticating or foreignizing texts? Niccolò Ammaniti's Ti Prendo e Ti Porto Via translated into English". In Rebecca Hyde Parker; Karla Guadarrama Garcia (eds.). Thinking Translation: Perspectives from Within and Without: Conference Proceedings, Third UEA Postgraduate Translation Symposium. Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press. p. 138\. ISBN 978-1-59942-461-3.
15. ^ "RCS MediaGroup SpA". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
16. ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson, eds. (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 355\. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
17. ^ Franca Merlonghi; Ferdinando Merlonghi; Joseph Tursi; Brian O’Connor (2011). Oggi In Italia: A First Course in Italian. Australia: Cengage Learning. p. 400\. ISBN 978-1-133-17121-8.
18. ^ Mitchell V. Charnley (September 1953). "The Rise of the Weekly Magazine in Italy". Journalism Quarterly. 30 (4): 477. doi:10.1177/107769905303000405. S2CID 191530801.
19. ^ Maria Teresa Crisci. "Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines" (PDF). The Print and Digital Research Forum. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
20. ^ "Rcs Mediagroup" (PDF). Borsa Italiana. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
21. ^ "Dati ADS (tirature e vendite)". Fotografi (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
22. ^ Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market and Media Fact" (PDF). Zenith Optimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.

## External links

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* Official website
* Media related to Novella 2000 at Wikimedia Commons