''Il Mondo'' (

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

: ''The World'') was a weekly political, cultural and economic magazine founded by

Gianni Mazzocchi Gianni Mazzocchi (18 November 1906 – 24 October 1984) was an Italian magazine editor-proprietor, originally from Central Italy, with an unusual degree of energy and entrepreneurial flair; he moved north to Milan and became a leading print-media ...

(also founder of ''

L'Europeo ''L'Europeo'' was a prominent Italian weekly news magazine launched on 4 November 1945, by the founder-editors Gianni Mazzocchi and Arrigo Benedetti.

'') and directed by

Mario Pannunzio Mario Pannunzio (5 March 1910 – 10 February 1968) was an Italian journalist and politician. As a journalist he was the director in charge of the daily newspaper Risorgimento Liberale (''Liberal reawakening'') in the 1940s and of the weekly p ...

. It existed between 1949 and 2014.

History and profile

The founding group, consisting of

(managing director), Vittorio Gorresio,

Ennio Flaiano Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including ...

Corrado Alvaro Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the '' verismo'' style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first succe ...

, Mino Maccari and

Vitaliano Brancati Vitaliano Brancati (; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter. Biography Born in Pachino, Syracuse, Brancati studied in Catania, where he graduated in letters and where he spent the most pa ...

, had already worked together in the weekly magazine '' Omnibus'' (1937–1939). ''Il Mondo'' was founded in 1949. The first issue of the magazine was released on 19 February 1949, with articles against the

welfare state A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equita ...

and

Keynesian economics Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output a ...

. In economics, the magazine was inspired by the economic theories of

Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and Sociology, sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberali ...

and

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...

. It adopted a leftist-liberal approach. Initially born as an anti-communist and laicist periodical, during the years it maintained a line of total independence from "

the powers that be In idiomatic English, "the powers that be" (sometimes initialized as TPTB) is a phrase used to refer to those individuals or groups who collectively hold authority over a particular domain. Within this phrase, the word ''be'' is an archaic vari ...

" in politics and finance. People writing for ''Il Mondo'' included

Adolfo Battaglia Adolfo Battaglia (born 10 February 1930) is an Italian journalist who served as the minister of industry, commerce and craftsmanship between 1987 and 1991 in three successive cabinets. He was a long-term member of the Chamber of Deputies. Biog ...

, Ernesto Rossi, Giovanni Spadolini, Enzo Forcella, Antonio Cederna, Roberto Pane,

Marco Pannella Marco Pannella (born Giacinto Pannella; 2 May 1930 – 19 May 2016) was an Italian politician, journalist and activist. He was well known in his country for his nonviolence and civil rights' campaigns, like the right to divorce, the right to ab ...

Eugenio Scalfari Eugenio Scalfari (; 6 April 1924 – 14 July 2022) was an Italian journalist. He was editor of the news magazine ''L'Espresso'' (1963–1968), a member of parliament in the Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972), and co-founder of the newspaper ''La ...

, Tommaso Landolfi,

Indro Montanelli Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli (; 22 April 1909 – 22 July 2001) was an Italian journalist, historian and writer. He was one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute. A volunte ...

, Vittorio De Caprariis and

Panfilo Gentile Panfilo Gentile (28 May 1889 – 6 July 1971) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician. Another notable journalist, Sergio Romano, wrote of Gentile that he had an irrepressible tendency to deconstruct fashionable ideas, to puncture the b ...

. Writers

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...

and George Orwell were among the foreign contributors. The headquarters of the weekly was in Rome. In the early years the average circulation was between 15,000 and 18,000 copies, with a peak of 20,000.Antonio Cardini. (1992). ''Tempi di ferro. «Il Mondo» e l'Italia del dopoguerra''. Il Mulino. . In the period between 1952 and 1953 the number of the pages was 12. In 1955 Pannunzio brought the pages of the magazine from 12 to 16 pages, while in 1956, the publisher decided to bring back ''Il Mondo'' to 12 pages. In September the magazine was yielded to a company whose main shareholders were

Nicolò Carandini Count Nicolò Carandini (6 December 1896 – 18 March 1972) was a leader of Italian post−World War II liberalism and a champion of European Federalism. He was the first Italian ambassador to Britain after World War II, and the first presi ...

and Adriano Olivetti. The magazine closed in March 1966.

Relaunch and definitive closing

In 1969 Rizzoli acquired the rights for the magazine, and relaunched it as a ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...

''-format news magazine. After a few years, ''Il Mondo'' went from a weekly news magazine to a specializing in economics publication, something groundbreaking for the time in Italy. In the 1990s it began the long agony, and in the final period the magazine was sold as a supplement of the '' Corriere della Sera''. The magazine was published weekly on Fridays. From December 2002 to November 2003 the average circulation of ''Il Mondo'' was 94,729 copies. The magazine sold 78,430 copies in 2007. ''Il Mondo'' finally closed in February 2014.

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History and profile

Relaunch and definitive closing

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