Prometeo (magazine)

Prometeo was launched by Javier Gómez de la Serna in Madrid on 1 November 1908.^[1] It came out monthly.^[2] Javier Gómez edited the political section of the magazine until issue 11 dated September 1909 when he was appointed general director registries and notaries.^[1] Then his son Ramón Gómez de la Serna took charge of the magazine.^[1] He also published articles in the magazine.^[3] Its major contributors were as follows: Rafael Cansinos-Asséns, Enrique Díez Canedo, Carlos Fernández Shaw, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriel Miró, Cipriano Rivas Cherif, Emilio Carrere and Francisco Villaespesa.^[1] The writings of the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti were also featured in the magazine.^[4]

In April 1909 Prometeo published the Spanish translation of the manifesto of futurism written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.^[5] The text was translated into Spanish by Ramón Gómez.^[2] Therefore, it endorsed this new approach which laid the basis of the avant-garde movement.^[2] It was the first Spanish periodical which published Spanish translations of the poems by Walt Whitman.^[2] The magazine also featured translations of the work by Oscar Wilde, Thomas De Quincey, Anatole France, Maxim Gorky and George Bernard Shaw.^[1] The final issue of Prometeo appeared on 1 March 1912.^[1]