''L'Italiano'' was a weekly literary and arts magazine that existed between 1926 and 1942 in Italy. Its full title was ''L'italiano: rivista settimanale della gente fascista''. It is one of the magazines founded and edited by the well-known Italian journalist

Leo Longanesi Leopoldo "Leo" Longanesi (30 August 1905 27 September 1957) was an Italian journalist, publicist, screenplayer, playwright, writer, and publisher. Longanesi is mostly known in his country for his satirical works on Italian society and people. H ...

. Its subtitle was ''Foglio della Rivoluzione Fascista'' (Italian: ''Publication of the Fascist Revolution''), and its motto was "Mussolini is always right" which was also adopted and employed by the

Fascist regime Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hie ...

History and profile

''L'Italiano'' was established by Leo Longanesi in

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

in 1926. Its first issue appeared on 14 January that year. In the initial period it was published on a biweekly basis, and the first eight issues heavily covered political writings. From 1927 L'Italiano Editore founded by Leo Longanesi became the publisher of ''L'Italiano''. The headquarters of ''L'Italiano'' was moved to

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. It ceased publication at the end of 1942.

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