Legioni e Falangi

In support of its Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center, USF Special Collections acquired a complete run of the fascist periodical Legioni e Falangi: Revista d'Italia e di Spagna.

The thirty-three issues (Oct. 1940-July 1943), published by editors Guiseppe Lombrassa and Agustin de Foxa, served as a propaganda magazine and reflected the political interests of both Spain and Italy in the 1930s and 1940s. In the wake of the Spanish Civil War and during the early years of World War II, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sought to reinforce the unity of their two fascist nations. Legioni e Falangi incorporated articles, reviews, and visual material on the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the development of Fascism in Italy, and Spaniards’ and Italians’ shared struggles.

Published in Rome and Madrid (with Spanish translation), no print copies of the Italian edition of the periodical are extant in North America except at the University of South Florida Tampa Library. The entire collection has been digitized and is freely available here.

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Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, July 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Caesar's Imperial Lesson - Buffalo Bill's Bison - Journeys to Spain - Journey to Italy - The Big Tank (short story) - Luigi the Blood Drinker - Masks and Scenes - 30 Days in Rome - 30 Days in Madrid - Screen Voices - Wheel of letters
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, June 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Three Years of War - A Real Danger - A Legionary Prince - Majorca - The Life and Death of Cesare Borgia - The First Day of Argentine Independence - Masks and Scenes - 30 Days in Rome - 30 Days in Madrid - Voices from the Screen - Wheel of letters
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, May 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: 24 hours in the life of Europe - The gold rush - Drawing of a war - The new Italian painter - Eternal man (Story) - Barcelona day and night - Letter roster - Spanish "Parnasillo" - Screen voices - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, April 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Spain online - The excitements of the "rabbi" - The conqueror of Porto Arturo - Printed in Italy - The comrade (Story) - Masks and scenes - Literary and political romanticism of Jose de Larra - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Screen items
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, March 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Fernandez Cuesta in Rome - The Green Eyes of Bolshevism - Life of the Mad Count - New Face of Spain - The Moralist Secretary - Michelangelo and Alonso Berruguete - Masks and Scenes - 30 Days in Rome - 30 Days in Madrid - Voices from the Screen
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, February 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: From Cid Campeador to Eisenhower - Falangists in Italy - Memories of the liberation of Barcelona - The siren (Story) - Italians in Argentina - Glory and memory of Zorrilla - Masks and scenes - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Voices from the screen
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, January 1943

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Standing Spain - Europe and Asia - The Unredeemed Spain - Iberian Riches - Nativity Scene Figurines - Nine Years Later - From the Caucasus to the Pyrenees - Santa Maria di Monserrato - An Autumn Evening (Story) - 30 Days in Rome - 30 Days in Madrid - Voices of the screen
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, December 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Mediterranean sun amidst Nordic mists - Peter III of Aragon and Italy - Bartolomeo Las Casas - Foreign policy and political parties in Argentina - Italians in Argentina - The last bullfight (Story) - The tragic and the comic in Spain - Masks and scenes - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Screen voices
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, November 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Twenty years after the march - Columbus and Spain - Monroe and imperialism - Susanna (Story) - Italian pioneers in the "Pais del diablo" - Life and misfortune of Cervantes - Dante in Spanish - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Screen items
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, October 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: The Pharisees unmasked - Cordoba - Chile, New World Prussia - "Who is the Tebib?" (Story) - The Italians against Russia - Farinelli adviser to Spanish kings and knight of Calatrava - "Race" and "Red and Black" - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Voices from the screen
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, September 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Ancient and new "Conquistadores" - Italy and Spain in history - The struggle for the seaways - Today in Farsalo with Cesare - A night at the foot of the Morrone - Under the cold sky - Creators and interpreters in today's musical Spain - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Screen voices
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, August 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Mediterranean-Russia-Oceans - Ravens over America - The eternal barbarians - Albania in grey-green - Egypt - Spain at the Biennale - The unfortunate Espronceda - The "premieres" in Madrid - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Screen items
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, July 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: The three journeys of Serrano Suñer - The second front - The Mediterranean trap - Journey to Extremadura - "Jineta" the art of riding - Daphne (story) - Reasons for Spanish romanticism - The secrets of an island - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Voices of the screen
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, June 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: The opinion of Queen Victoria - Lisbon 1942 - Itineraries in Spain - Blue nose - An anthropologist among the Indians - The death of Don Quixote - Masks and scenes - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, May 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Miseries of a coalition - European journalists at a conference - Prophecy and politics - Buccari before and after - Memories of Andorra - Masks and scenes - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, April 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Latin America in danger - Letter from Madrid - The fate of "Julantje" - The hour of India - Decadence of the "Gaucho" - Don Juan loved and unhappy - The "Voltaire" of Music - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, March 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: The finished dream - Australia, a minor continent - Itineraries in Spain - Juan Valera's Andalusia - Catania press from 1918 - Masks and scenes - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Sports of yesterday and today
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, February 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Spain and Hispanita - "Joya del Mar de Oriente" - The march of Japan - Mediterranean winter - The three eternal cycles of Rome - Spanish legends - Zumalacarregui and his war cap - The adventurous life of Felice Corte - The soghi of Ljubljana - Masks and scenes - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, January 1942

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Against the United States - In the middle of the world war - Tsushima - War in three oceans - Men and ships - Andalusian Christmas - Italian women - An Italian general in the Spanish armies - Italians and Spaniards in modern painting - Gold and blood - Masks and scenes - Voices of the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, December 1941

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Europe without England - Southern front, between the Atlantic and the Caucasus - Jose Antonio classic hero - Italy and Ukraine - The story of a headdress - Literary Brazil - The bullfighter who was born and died at high noon - Portraits of Isabella - Four writers - Spanish fashion yesterday and today - Gold and blood - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, November 1941

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Bolshevik generals and German generals - Italian and Spanish Renaissance - Letters to the Great Companion - Memories of Bilbao - The Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the European war - A poet of the Falange: Jose Luis Estrada - The truth about the day of the discovery of America - Days of Barcelona - Albeniz - Tasso's friend Lope's enemy - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Spanish cinema, yesterday and today
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, October 1941

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: The War of the East - Parallel Stories - Who are the Russians - The Lord of Arabia - The Propaganda Weapon - Trenches of Marmarica - Days of Barcelona - Dakar - Masks and Scenes - Voices from the Screen - 30 Days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid - Gold and blood
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, September 1941

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: The return of the Spanish infantry - The century of the Mendozas - On the chessboard of the Great Ocean - The Holy Grail of German power - Portugal at the crossroads - Barcelona Days - The Azores - Islands without peace - Contemplation of the arts - Posthumous revenge - Casanova and Bishops in Spain - Gold and blood - The guardian of the city (short story) - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid
Legioni e falangi: rivista d'Italia e di Spagna, August 1941

Giuseppe Lombrassa

Contents: Contents: Guerrillas and guerrilleros - The "law of the islands" - Return to the East - Barcelona Days - Iceland - What does America want? - Death in front of the bar - The seven months of Bela Kun - The Cantare del Cid - The true and the magical in the poem - Gold and blood - Masks and scenes - Voices from the screen - 30 days in Rome - 30 days in Madrid