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

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

History and profile

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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.

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 Caetani.[2] The publication of the magazine ended in 1960.[1][2]

 

In 1951 the journal published the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Helen Barolini. "The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops". VQR. No. Spring 1998. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  5. ^ Ferris, Paul (1989). Dylan Thomas. New York: Paragon House Publishers. p. 283. ISBN 9781557782151. OCLC 18560227.
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