In Italy there are many magazines. In the late 1920s there were nearly one hundred literary magazines.[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.[4] The number of consumer magazines was 975 in 1995 and 782 in 2004.[5] There are also Catholic magazines and newspapers in the country.[6] A total of fifty-eight Catholic magazines was launched between 1867 and 1922.[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.[6] Until 2010 an additional eighty-six Catholic magazines were founded.[6]
The magazines had 3,400 million euros revenues in 2009, and 21.5% of these revenues were from advertising.[7]
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Italy. They are published in Italian or other languages.