Società was founded as a quarterly magazine in Florence in 1945.
[1][2] The founders were Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Cesare Luporini and Romano Bilenchi.
[3] The headquarters was later moved to Rome,[2] and in 1954 its frequency was switched to bimonthly.
[1] Società featured Italian fiction and poetry and occasionally included some essays on the theater and the cinema.
[2] It was one of the publications read by the Italian intellectuals, who had Gramscian views.