La ronda

Italian periodical

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La Ronda was an Italian literary review founded in 1919 by poet Vincenzo Cardarelli and others, including Emilio Cecchi. The review advocated for a return to classical stylistic values, aligning with the "return to order" sentiment following World War I. This movement emphasized a cult of form and contributed to a stifling of free expression during the fascist era. Despite this, La Ronda played a role in the literary landscape of the time, with Cecchi using it as a platform for his essays on various subjects.12

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Italian literature - The “return to order”
Emilio Cecchi

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- Riccardo Bacchelli
  …on the Roman literary periodical La Ronda, he attempted to discredit contemporary avant-garde writers by holding up as models the Renaissance masters and such fine 19th-century writers as Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni. Somewhat later he was drama critic for the Milanese review La fiera letteraria.
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  …on the Roman literary periodical La Ronda, he attempted to discredit contemporary avant-garde writers by holding up as models the Renaissance masters and such fine 19th-century writers as Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni. Somewhat later he was drama critic for the Milanese review La fiera letteraria.
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- Italian literature
  The return to order
  …the aims of the review La Ronda, founded in 1919 by the poet Vincenzo Cardarelli and others, which advocated a return to classical stylistic values. This led to an excessive cult of form in the narrow sense—as exemplified by the elegant but somewhat bloodless essays (elzeviri) published in Italian newspapers…
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  …the aims of the review La Ronda, founded in 1919 by the poet Vincenzo Cardarelli and others, which advocated a return to classical stylistic values. This led to an excessive cult of form in the narrow sense—as exemplified by the elegant but somewhat bloodless essays (elzeviri) published in Italian newspapers…
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
…helped found the literary journal La ronda (1919–22; “The Rounds”), which supported Classicism over the avant-garde movements of Futurism and Hermeticism.
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…helped found the literary journal La ronda (1919–22; “The Rounds”), which supported Classicism over the avant-garde movements of Futurism and Hermeticism.
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Emilio Cecchi
He cofounded the review La ronda (“The Rounds”) in 1919. Cecchi’s best-known works are his collections of newspaper essays Pesci rossi (1920; “Goldfish”) and Corse al trotio (1936; “Trotting Races”), on a wide range of subjects from modern life to the future, as well as literary topics, treated with…
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He cofounded the review La ronda (“The Rounds”) in 1919. Cecchi’s best-known works are his collections of newspaper essays Pesci rossi (1920; “Goldfish”) and Corse al trotio (1936; “Trotting Races”), on a wide range of subjects from modern life to the future, as well as literary topics, treated with…
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