L'Edizione nazionale degli scritti di Antonio Gramsci. Vecchi problemi e nuove acquisizioni: gli Scritti 1910-1926

For over ten years, Gramsci was a prolific journalist, almost always however in unsigned articles, making it recognition difficult. Progress made in studies on Gramsci's life and thought have shown up the weaknesses of previous collections of his journalistic and political writings in the two series of his Works (the first one coming out between 1954 and 1971 and the second - incomplete - one from 1980 to 1987). The volume relating to the years 1910-1916, shortly forthcoming in the National Edition, and the just published volume on 1917, will contain important novelties, first of all as regards the text, now re-established on the basis of a precise examination of the journals in which they appeared. Textual examination, which has also included a definition of the profile of the journalists who wrote on the same pages, has allowed us to make a better-founded attribution of the anonymous authors, leading to the exclusion of some articles that are known and the inclusion of new ones. Among these is a series of articles devoted to operas, operettas and concerts, which show that Gramsci's relation to music is rather different from the one that criticism has hitherto construed.

Available online: Laboratoire italien (Accessed December 19, 2016)