Dimensione Cosmica has returned to regular quarterly publication in Winter 2018, after being absent for some years. This is an Italian language magazine of non-fiction, reviews and interviews, with a strong focus on the history of the fantastic.
Translated, titles of selected historical and Lovecraft articles for the issues to date…
No. 1.
* Lovecraft at 80. [Perhaps an article on Lovecraft’s ‘baseline’ presence in Italy in either 1970 (age 80) or 1980?]
* The Italian Star Wars.
* J.R.R. Tolkien, a professor with many anniversaries.
* Arthur Machen, scribe of miracles and magical realist.
* James Allison, a forgotten hero. [R.E. Howard]
* Conan and the Ninth Art. [R.E. Howard]
* Gnome Press: when science fiction conquered books.
No. 2.
* Neo-symbolism: features for an exegesis of the fantastic literature of Alex Voglino.
* The Babel Catalog: E. Vegetti: the story of a friend and his endless work.
* The Cosmic Dimension interviews: Alan Lee, the art of Middle-earth. [A leading Tolkien illustrator]
* The damned Bran Mak Morn. [R.E. Howard]
No. 3.
* Challenge to infinity: Futurism and the future.
* The thousand faces of Solomon Kane. [R.E. Howard]
* Welcome to the “Bradbury Center”. [Perhaps a Ray Bradbury museum in Italy?]
* The kingdom of Hyperborea, between horror and decadence [R.E. Howard]
* Is there a fantastic fiction crisis?
* Sounds from deep space: when music meets science fiction.
No. 4.
* Scientification: Alternative History of Italian Science Fiction.
* Ursula K. Le Guin: a true glory?
* Fantastica “Made in Italy” and the foreign market: a conversation with Alessandro Manzetti.
* 1828-2018: Verne is dead, live Verne! [Presumably a history of the reception and afterlives of Jules Verne in Italy?]
* Frazetta: when the flesh becomes art.
No. 5.
* Tolkien between Myth, Symbol and Literature.
* Tale of the Holy Grail and Lord of the Rings: two “intertwining” stories.
* The “Cosmic Dimension” in comics. [inc. Kirby]
No. 6.
* Mr. Urania: memories of Giuseppe Lippi. [Memories of the leading Italian Lovecraftian, by multiple authors]
* Of the attempt to obscure Tolkien. [Perhaps a history of the attempts at erasure by leftist critics, in the 1970s and 80s?]
* “Lo Smeraldo”: the dream-apocalyptic journey of Mario Soldati in the Italy of the future.
* Robert E. Howard and the Italian writers of the fantastic.
* Providence: between Lovecraft and Moore. [Presumably a review of Alan Moore’s completed Providence comic?]
No. 7 (summer 2019).
* Mystery is my job: interview with Alfredo Castelli.
* A nineteenth-century French Tarzan.
* The return of the myths of Cthulhu. [At a total guess, perhaps a survey of how clueless and gullible many modern ‘fans’ are about Lovecraft and his original mythos?]
* “From an enthusiastic Frenchman”: a letter from Jacques Bergier to Weird Tales.
The originals are in Italian, and the above are just my translations. The magazine also carries regular book reviews.
