Tempo (Italian magazine)
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 Cover of the first issue, June 1939 | |
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| Categories | News magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founded | 1939 |
| First issue | 9 June 1939 |
| Final issue | 1976 |
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| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Milan |
| Language | Italian |
| ISSN | 1128-2959 |
| OCLC | 436686743 |
Tempo (Italian: Time) was an illustrated weekly news magazine published in Milan, Italy, between 1939 and 1976 with a temporary interruption during World War II.
Tempo was first published on 9 June 1939,[1][2] being the first full colour illustrated Italian magazine.[3] It was subtitled as Settimanale di politica, informazione, letteratura e arte (Italian: Political, informational, literary and art weekly).[4] The founding company was Mondadori.[2] The magazine was modelled on the American magazines Life[2] and Newsweek.[5]
The headquarters of Tempo was in Milan.[6] By 1942 The magazine had editions published in eight different languages,[2] including Albanian, Croatian, French, Greek, Rumanian, Spanish, German and Hungarian.[7] The German edition existed between 1940 and 1943 and was also published by Mondadori.[4]
On 8 September 1943 Tempo stopped publication following the occupation of northern Italy by German army during World War II.[3][8] Mondadori sold the magazine to Aldo Palazzi in 1946.[9] Then the magazine was relaunched and was both owned and published by Palazzi.[6][10] During this period it held a centrist political stance.[6] In the 1950s Tempo was less sentimental and adopted a progressive and secular political stance.[11]
Tempo sold 500,000 copies in 1955 making it one of the most read magazines in Italy.[12] In the 1960s the magazine frequently carried political and news articles with moderate and conservative tones.[13] In 1976 the magazine ceased publication.[14]
Editors and contributors
Tempo was edited by Alberto Mondadori, son of Arnoldo Mondadori.[7][15] Indro Montanelli was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine.[7] From its start in 1939 to September 1943 Bruno Munari served as the art director for the magazine and for another Mondadori title, Grazia.[16][17] The early contributors for Tempo were Massimo Bontempelli, Curzio Malaparte,[9] Lamberti Sorrentino, and Salvatore Quasimodo.[8] In the late 1960s Pier Paolo Pasolini was the editor of an advice column named Il caos (Italian: Chaos).[18] The magazine also included the work by photographers John Philiphs who previously worked for Life, and Federico Patellani.[8]
