Epoca (magazine)

Epoca (meaning Age in English) was an Italian illustrated weekly current events magazine published in Milan, Italy.

This article is about an Italian magazine. For Spanish magazine, see Época (Spanish magazine). For Brazilian magazine, see Época (Brazilian magazine).

Epoca

1953 cover featuring Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Former editors	Alberto Mondadori Enzo Biagi
Categories	Current affairs magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Year founded	1950
First issue	14 October 1950
Final issue	1997
Company	Mondadori Rizzoli Editori
Country	Italy
Based in	Milan
Language	Italian
ISSN	0013-9718
OCLC	1718813

History and profile

October 1950 issue of Epoca

Epoca was first published on 14 October 1950.[1][2][3] The magazine was modelled on Life[4][5] and Paris Match.[2] The magazine was part of Mondadori[3][6] and was based in Milan.[7]

Its first editor was Alberto Mondadori who was succeeded in the post by Enzo Biagi in 1953.[2] The magazine sold 500,000 copies in 1955.[2]

During the period until 1960 when Enzo Biagi edited Epoca the magazine covered current affairs news, social attitudes as well as TV news.[2] The magazine also included frequent and detailed articles about Hollywood stars of the period[8][9] and Italian movie stars such as Gina Lollobrigida.[10] The weekly had offices in New York, Paris and Tokyo.[5] From June 1952 to the late 1958 the Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Céspedes wrote an agony column, called Dalla parte di lei, in the magazine.[11]

Then Epoca became part of Rizzoli Editori[5] and began to cover travel and nature news with photographs and scientific articles.[2] The magazine had a section called I bei posti (meaning Beautiful Places in English) where the photographs of unknown places such as Bahamas, Marrakesh and Acapulco by Mario de Biasi, Alfredo Panucci and Giorgio Lotti were published.[4]

Epoca's circulation was 400,000 copies in 1963.[12] In 1970 the circulation of the magazine was 350,000 copies.[13] The weekly had a circulation of 120,046 copies in 1984.[14]

Epoca was closed down in 1997 due to low circulation.[2][7]

See also

• List of magazines in Italy

References

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8. Stephen Gundle (4 December 2000). Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991. Duke University Press. p. 47. ISBN 0-8223-2563-2. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
9. Stephen Gundle (Summer 2002). "Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy" (PDF). Journal of Cold War Studies. 4 (3). Retrieved 27 April 2015.
10. Réka C. V. Buckley (2000). "National Body: Gina Lollobrigida and the cult of the star in the 1950s". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 20 (4): 527–547. doi:10.1080/713669741.
11. Penny Morris (2004). "From private to public: Alba de Céspedes' agony column in 1950s Italy". Modern Italy. 9 (1): 11–20. doi:10.1080/13532940410001677467.
12. Randolp S. Churchill (17 January 1964). "The Press". The Spectator. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
13. "The Press: Women, Not Girls". Time. 18 January 1971. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
14. Maria Teresa Crisci. "Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines" (PDF). The Print and Digital Research Forum. Retrieved 14 April 2015.