Il Baretti was a monthly literary magazine which was one of the publications launched and edited by Piero Gobetti.
The title was a reference to Giuseppe Baretti, who was an author in the eighteenth century, an exile and pre-romantic pilgrim.
[2] He used the magazine to continue his critical approach towards Fascism after the closure of La Rivoluzione Liberale in 1925.
[2] Its major contributors included Leone Ginzburg, Benedetto Croce, Eugenio Montale and Gaetano Salvemini.
[6] Il Baretti also published translations of works by the well-known Surrealists and Dadaists, including James Joyce, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust and Charles Baudelaire.