EDITORI DI LIBRI E DI RIVISTE NELLA ROMA LIBERATA

• Published in: Nuovi annali della Scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari 2017-01, Vol.31, p.247-268
• Main Author: Ciocchetti, Marcello
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Subjects: Allulli, Enrico; Briganti, Giuliano; Freedom of speech; Freedom of the press; Journalism; Morandotti, Alessandro; Postwar history; Publishing industry; World War II
• ISSN: 1122-0775; 2037-6073

Along the months from the arrival of the Allied troops into the Italian capital (June 4th, 1944) to the fulfillment of the Liberation process (April 1945), Rome was not only the place of political decisions, but also the capital of the periodical press and of publishing activities. These conditions were determined by different factors: a wide availability of printing facilities and skilled workers, the hundreds of intellectuals, journalists and writers, who were determined to revindicate their freedom of speech, which had been denied for the previous twenty years; the specular wish of readers to enjoy unbounded information. The exponential growth of newspapers and magazines corresponded to a stunning proliferation of imprints (not less than three hundred firms); some of these publishers were engaged into the concurrent promotion of books and magazines. This paper dwells on the exemplar case of Editrice Cosmopolita: this brand (in which the personalities of Enrico Allulli, Giuliano Briganti and Alessandro Morandotti are differently involved) can be linked to twenty monographs, the weekly magazine «Cosmopolita» and at least five other journals.