[1] Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded.
[2][3] From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in number in the country.
[6] From 1923 to 1943, the period of the Fascist Regime, only ten new Catholic magazines was started.
[6] In the period from 1943 to the end of the Second Vatican Council thirty-three new magazines were established.
[7] The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Italy.