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Botteghe Oscure

Italian literary periodical

Field	Value
title	Botteghe Oscure
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category	literary journal
founder	Marguerite Caetani
founded	1948
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finaldate	1960
country	Italy
based	Rome
language	Italian, French, English, German, Spanish
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oclc	1536926

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

History and profile

Botteghe Oscure was established in 1948.{{cite thesis|author=Lorenzo M. Salvagni|title=In the Garden of Letters: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review Botteghe Oscure|url=https://oatd.org/oatd/record?record=oai:cdr.lib.unc.edu:uuid:d43d7375-3285-4dea-912b-bd01b4520b6e |location=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.

Giorgio Bassani was an editor. Later Eugene Walter moved from Paris to Rome to edit the magazine for Caetani. The publication of the magazine ended in 1960.

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

References

Helen Barolini. "The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops". VQR.
Bogan, Louise. (19 September 1953).[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1953/09/19/1953_09_19_113_TNY_CARDS_000240540?/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh "Books"] ''The New Yorker''
Karl Ludwig Selig. (September 1956). "The Cultural Periodicals in Italy, 1945-1950". Italica.
Ferris, Paul. (1989). "Dylan Thomas". Paragon House Publishers.

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