Adula (magazine)
The Adula (original title L 'Adula ) was a Ticino cultural magazine. The Italian-language magazine appeared between 1912 and 1935 mostly in a weekly edition, occasionally also fortnightly. In 1935, the Federal Council ordered the magazine to be discontinued because of the publication of irredentist propaganda publications.
Journalistic activity and orientation can be divided into three periods of time: until 1919 the Adula was oriented towards Switzerland, from 1919 to 1925 it was oriented towards Italy and from 1925 onwards oriented towards fascism.
Political environment
As an irredentist magazine, it naturally took the view that Rhaeto-Romanic was an Italian dialect. This sparked resistance from the Bunder newspapers. The vehemence gradually increased and became harder and harder. It should be noted here that these things also fell into the preliminary phase of the recognition of the Romansh language as the fourth national language. The vote took place on February 20, 1938. The second magazine on the side of Italian irredentism that dealt with the “Rhaeto-Romanic problem” was Raetia , which was published from 1931 by the Società Palatina in Milan. The irredentist ideas, however, did not meet with great approval from either the Romansh or Italian-speaking Grisons, but rather led to a merging of the two language groups in Graubünden.
The development of the rapprochement with Italy is also reflected in the title addition. When it was founded, it was still called "Organo svizzero di cultura italiana", although "svizzero" was later dropped. It then became the "Rivista Ticinese di cultura italiana" with the subtitle per l'italianità del Ticino e della Rezia . From 1929 the title was "Rivista retico-ticinese di cultura italiana".
The increasingly obvious nationalist-imperialist aspirations ultimately led to the magazine being banned in 1935.
Web links
- Silvano Gilardoni: Adula, L '. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .