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Il Conciliatore

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Il Conciliatore
Cover page of Il Conciliatore
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyTwice weekly
First issue1819
Final issue
Number

118
CountryKingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
LanguageItalian

Il Conciliatore was a progressive bi-weekly scientific and literary journal, influential in the early Risorgimento. The journal was published in Milan from September 1818 until October 1819 when it was closed by the Austrian censors. Its writers included Ludovico di Breme, Giuseppe Nicolini and Silvio Pellico. The latter wrote articles for the magazine supporting the publication of novels in Italy.[1]

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The name of the magazine was intended to suggest reconciliation between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Edited by Silvio Pellico and Ludovico di Breme, it attracted contributions from leading Italian liberal intellectuals on economics, education, social issues, and science. Its literature articles paid particular attention to history and the theatre, and included contributions by Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Giovanni Berchet, Pietro Borsieri, Giuseppe Nicolini and Ermes Visconti.[2] Earnestly pedagogical in spirit, the ‘foglio azzurro’ (so called from the colour of its paper) was in trouble from the start with polemical rivals and the censors, who eventually closed it down in October 1819.[2] The former editor of the magazine, Silvio Pellico, was arrested in October 1821 and sentenced to fifteen years' labour, to be served in the notorious Moravian Špilberk Castle.

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  1. ^ Ann Hallamore Caesar (2001). "Women Readers and the Novel in Nineteenth–century Italy". Italian Studies. 56 (1): 90. doi:10.1179/its.2001.56.1.80.
  2. ^ a b Gallavresi 1931.

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