''Cronaca Vera'' (

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for ''True Chronicles'') is a weekly, tabloid

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, published in

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History

The magazine was founded in 1969 by

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Sergio Garassini, who had launched the monthly erotic magazine ''Kent''. Garassini appointed Antonio Perria, crime author and former '' ABC'' editor who had also worked at ''

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'' as a crime reporter, to be the periodical's first

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. The graphic illustrator and

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artist Maurizio Bovarini was entrusted with the design of ''Cronaca'', while he also, in the same year, started working as editor at the Italian edition of '' Hara-Kiri'' magazine.

Content

The magazine is printed in "low-quality paper" and costs one

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. An issue typically contains from about a dozen up to fifteen reports ranging from local news to crime, from stories of everyday violence to controversies. It contains

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s such as ''Il Racconto Giallo/Nero'' (Tales of Yellow/Black)The word ''giallo'' in Italian signifies not just the color yellow but also mystery fiction and thrillers. See

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. with crime stories, or ''I Misteri del Sesso'' (The Mysteries of Sex), where readers write in about their sexual problems. Its titles, in "jarring yellows and reds," are considered by ''Vice'' magazine to be "wonderful." ''Cronaca Vera'' is considered "a lurid tabloid" by some critics, although its covers are for others "unmissable", while for the mayoralty of

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, the magazine is "prestigious."

Popularity

In the mid-1970s, ''Cronaca'' was selling approximately 600 thousand issues every week. Editor-in-chief Giuseppe Biselli contends that the magazine receives "approximately 20,000 letters" from readers every year. He agrees with the finding that it is the most popular publication among prison inmates.

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