Enrico Falqui

[1] He also found time, over the years, to contribute to various other literary periodicals, including "Circoli" (of which he was at one stage co-director with Adriano Grande), "Humanitas", "Quadrivio", "Pegaso", "Pan", "Primato", "Nuova Antologia" and even "Oggi".

[4] In 1935 he entered into a productive artistic collaboration with the Tuscan author Gianna Manzini whom he had met the previous year.

[5][6] In the mid-1930s Falqui also worked with the linguistics scholar Angelico Prati to produce what amounted to a substantial "maritime lexicon", the "Dizionario di marina medievale e moderna", published in 1937 by the "Accademia d'Italia".

[1][8][9] During his time with "L'Italia Letteraria" Falqui discovered and encouraged the illustrator known as "Scipione", whose distinctive style became integral to the look of the magazine.

He commissioned "Scipione" to design some memorable covers for books such as "Il paese del melodramma" by Bruno Barilli, "Ossi di seppia" by Eugenio Montale and "Prologhi – Viaggi – Favole" by Vincenzo Cardarelli.