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***Sapere*** (Italian: *Knowledge*) is a [popular science](/source/Popular_science) magazine that has been in circulation since 1935 and is based in Rome, Italy. It is one of the earliest Italian publications in its category.

## History and profile

*Sapere* was established by the Italian publisher Ulrico Hoepli in 1935.[1][2] The magazine is published by the Edizioni Dedalo on a bimonthly basis.[1][3] *Sapere* came out monthly during the 1970s.[4] It is based in Rome.[5]

*Sapere* features articles on science, news, reviews, and contains graphic novels and photography.[3] The magazine has used extensive illustrations and photographs since its start in 1935.[6] In the 1940s its target audience was those who were interested in the interdisciplinarity of scientific knowledge and modernist culture.[7]

## Contributors and content

One of the early contributors of the magazine was Guido Landra who wrote articles containing the results of his race studies.[8] Its other contributors included [Enrico Fermi](/source/Enrico_Fermi), [Guglielmo Marconi](/source/Guglielmo_Marconi), [Adriano Buzzati-Traverso](/source/Adriano_Buzzati-Traverso), Giulio Maccacaro and [Carlo Bernardini](/source/Carlo_Bernardini_(politician)) who were scientists.[2]

*Sapere* covered propaganda materials in the [Fascist period](/source/Fascist_Italy_(1922%E2%80%931943)) one of which was about Japanese identity culture.[9] The magazine featured an extract from [Beaumont Newhall](/source/Beaumont_Newhall)’s article entitled *The New Abstract Vision* in 1947.[7]

A group of the writers from *[Il manifesto](/source/Il_manifesto)* joined the magazine in the mid-1970s.[10] They were led by Giulio Alfredo Maccacaro who was made editor-in-chief of *Sapere*.[11] The members of the group published articles about the history and critics of science from 1978.[10][12] Another topic of their articles was the interaction between politics and [ecology](/source/Ecology) which contributed to raise the level of the political-ecological awareness among Italians.[13] The group domainated the magazine until 1982.[4] In the 1980s [Massimo Pigliucci](/source/Massimo_Pigliucci) was a regular contributor of *Sapere*.[14]

## References

1. ["Sapere"](https://edizionidedalo.it/riviste/riviste-attive/sapere) (in Italian). *edizioni Dedalo*. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

1. ["Sapere, i suoi primi sessant'anni"](https://sapere.galileonet.it/#) (in Italian). *Sapere*. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

1. Alessandro Frandi. ["Sapere, prima rivista italiana di divulgazione"](https://almanacco.cnr.it/articolo/176/sapere-prima-rivista-italiana-di-divulgazione) (in Italian). *almanacco.cnr.it*. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

1. Angelo Baracca (2017). ["The Role of Physics Students at the University of Florence in the Early Italian Anti-nuclear Movements (1975-1987)"](http://hdl.handle.net/10077/15343). *Nuclear Italy An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War*. Elisabetta Bini & Igor Londero (eds.). Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste. p. 220. [hdl:10077/15343](https://hdl.handle.net/10077/15343). ISBN 978-88-8303-813-6.

1. ["Sapere"](https://www.cric-rivisteculturali.it/prodotto/sapere/) (in Italian). *cric-rivisteculturali.it*. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

1. Enrica Battifoglia (2004). "Popularised science communication modes in Italian popular science magazines (1788-2002)". *Journal of Science Communication*. **3** (1): 11. [doi:10.22323/2.03010201](https://doi.org/10.22323/2.03010201)

1. Alessandro Ferraro & Marco Tamborini (2021). "Abstraction in Contemporary Visual Culture as an Interplay between Imagination, Image and Scientific Knowledge". *[Visual Resources](/source/Visual_Resources)*. **37** (2): 146. [doi:10.1080/01973762.2023.2186768](https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2023.2186768). [S2CID 258410968](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:258410968)

1. Aaron Gillette (2001). "The origins of the 'Manifesto of racial scientists'". *Journal of Modern Italian Studies*. **6** (3): 308. [doi:10.1080/13545710110084253](https://doi.org/10.1080/13545710110084253). [S2CID 146603137](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:146603137)

1. Sergio Raimondo; Valentina De Fortuna; Giulia Ceccarelli (July–December 2017). "Bushido as allied: The Japanese warrior in the cultural production of Fascist Italy (1940-1943)". *Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas*. **12** (2): 88. [doi:10.18002/rama.v12i2.5157](https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v12i2.5157). [hdl:10612/16459](https://hdl.handle.net/10612/16459)

1. Elena Formia (2017). "Mediating an Ecological Awareness in Italy: Shared Visions of Sustainability Between the Environmental Movement and Radical Design Cultures (1970–1976)". *Journal of Design History*. **30** (2): 197. [doi:10.1093/jdh/epw051](https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epw051)

1. Fabio Lusito (2020). "«Diamo l'assalto al cielo!» («Let's assault the sky»): science communication between scientists and citizens and Lombardo Radice's television in Italy in the years of the protests". *Journal of Science Communication*. **19** (3): 6. [doi:10.22323/2.19030203](https://doi.org/10.22323/2.19030203). [S2CID 225709282](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:225709282)

1. Angelo Baracca; Silvio Bergia; Flavio Del Santo (2017). "The origins of the research on the foundations of quantum mechanics (and other critical activities) in Italy during the 1970s". *[Studies in History and Philosophy of Science](/source/Studies_in_History_and_Philosophy_of_Science)*. **57**: 77. [arXiv:1608.05197](https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05197). [Bibcode:2017SHPMP..57...66B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017SHPMP..57...66B). [doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.11.003](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.11.003). [S2CID 118435754](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118435754)

1. Barca (2014). ["Work, Bodies, Militancy The “Class Ecology” Debate in 1970s Italy"](https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382379-008). *Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World*. Vol. 2. Boudia & Jas (eds.). New York; Oxford: [Berghahn Books](/source/Berghahn_Books). p. 127. [doi:10.1515/9781782382379-008](https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382379-008). ISBN 9781782382379.

1. "Announcements". *[Evolution](/source/Evolution_(journal))*. **51** (5): 1695. 1997. [doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01495.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01495.x). [S2CID 221729154](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:221729154)

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.saperescienza.it)

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