L'Indice dei libri del mese
| Editor | |
|---|---|
| Categories | literature, culture, current affairs |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Publisher | L'Indice Scarl |
| Total circulation (2007) |
12,000 |
| First issue | October 1984 |
| Country |
 Italy
|
| Based in | Torino |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | www.lindiceonline.com |
| ISSN | 0393-3903 |
L'Indice dei libri del mese (L'Indice) is an Italian monthly of cultural information. Founded in 1984, it is one of the most longeve and authoritative in the field. Taking inspiration from internationally renowned book reviews such as The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books,L'Indice offers its readers reviews of books and the arts (each issue contains up to a hundred book reviews), and essays on current events and cultural topics starting from the most significant literary and intellectual production in Italian.
The history of L'Indice begins in October 1984, with the literary critic words about what a book review is expected to achieve: «The essential is that the first moment, that is the description of a book’s contents, shall have the centrality it deserves. Connivance to the reader should not be established ... on the basis of specialistic interest nor by formal flatteries; contents only can ground it ... The essential is that the reader should get from the description of contents a clear idea of what the book is and of the reasons of its importance, those which have induced us to prefer it to others».
In its twenty-eight years of existence, L'Indice has always remained faithful to this program. It has documented the Italian book production through reviews and notices, along with surveys, columns, interviews and articles of different sorts. Each of its editors has left his own mark on the review: (1984–90) and Cesare Cases (1990–1994) have contributed to specify the original project, whose recognizable physiognomy is indissolubly associated with portraits and graphics, as well as with drawings. (1994–1999) brought special attention to the relationship between cinema and literature/essays. Under (2000–2001) guidance, L'Indice inaugurated a new column, "Segnali" (Signals), focusing on cultural and political changes, as well as knotty issues in the society we live in. (2001-) has enriched L'Indice with “Villaggio globale” (Global Village), hosting correspondents who write about books production in Europe and worldwide.
Many distinguished Italian academics and intellectuals belong to the history of L’Indice: from those who gathered around Gian Giacomo Migone in 1984 (Piergiorgio Battaggia, Gian Luigi Beccaria, Riccardo Bellofiore, Mariolina Bertini, Eliana Bouchard, Loris Campetti, Cesare Cases, Enrico Castelnuovo, Gianfranco Corsini, Lidia De Federicis, Aldo Fasolo, Franco Ferraresi, Delia Frigessi, Luciano Gallino, Claudio Gorlier, Filippo Maone, Diego Marconi, Franco Marenco, Cesare Pianciola, Tullio Regge, Marco Revelli, Fabrizio Rondolino, Gianni Rondolino, Franco Rositi, Lore Terracini, Gian Luigi Vaccarino), to renowned contributors who have expressly written for the review, such as, among others, Norberto Bobbio, Franco Fortini, Aldo Natoli, Cesare Garboli, Claudio Magris, Vittorio Foa, Carlo Dionisotti, Salvatore Settis, Cesare De Seta, Sebastiano Timpanaro, Edoardo Sanguineti, Maria Corti, Cesare Segre, Alessandro Galante Garrone, Stefano Rodotà, Francesco Orlando, Carlo Ginzburg, Giulio Angioni, Paolo Nori, Enzo Collotti, Adriano Prosperi, Marcello De Cecco, Massimo D'Alema, Luciana Castellina.
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