Il Piccolo is the main daily newspaper of Trieste, Italy. Its name derives from the paper's original small format.

History and profile

Il Piccolo was founded by Teodoro Mayer in 1881.[1] He was also the owner and editor-in-chief of the paper.[1] Mayer and other people who were instrumental in the establishment of the paper were right-wing pro-Italians.[1][2] Mayer supported the idea that Trieste was part of Italy.[1] One of its contributors was Carolina Luzzatto who was a supporter of this view.[3]

Il Piccolo ceased publication at the beginning of World War I and was relaunched in 1919.[1] Following the beginning of the Fascist rule in Italy the paper declared its adherence to the Fascist ideology in 1923.[4] Until the end of World War II the paper was edited by those with fascist political leaning.[2]

Il Piccolo is based in Trieste[5] and it is published by Finegil Editoriale SPA[6] which has been a subsidiary of Gruppo Espresso since 1998.[7] Local editions for the towns of Monfalcone and Gorizia and for the region of Istria (Croatia) are also printed. It has a progressive political stance.[8]

Circulation

The circulation of Il Piccolo was 40,231 copies in 2008.[9] The paper had a circulation of 31,302 copies in 2013.[10] The Espresso Group reported that the circulation of the paper was 28,800 copies in 2014.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Antonio Gramsci (January 2011). Prison Notebooks. Vol. 3. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-231-13945-8.
  2. ^ a b Maura Elise Hametz (2005). Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954. Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-86193-279-5.
  3. ^ Maddalena Del Bianco. "Luzzatto Coen Carolina (1837–1919). Giornalista e Patriota" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico dei Friulani. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  4. ^ George Talbot (2007). Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922-43. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 27. doi:10.1057/9780230222854. ISBN 978-0-230-22285-4.
  5. ^ a b "Local Newspapers". Gruppo Espresso. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Il Piccolo". Publicitas. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  7. ^ "History. 1990s". Gruppo Espresso. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  8. ^ Judith Thurman (31 March 2010). "Another counterfeit interview: Gore Vida". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  9. ^ Data for average newspaper circulation in 2008 Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa
  10. ^ "Products" (PDF). Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso. October 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.

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