Luce e Ombra [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Luce e Ombra*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Luce e Ombra. Rivista Mensile Illustrata di Scienze Spiritualiste / Rivista Bimestrale di Studi Metapsichichi e di Problemi dell’Anima e del Pensiero 1900 Monthly, then quarterly Rome, then Milan, Italy. Language: Italian. Publisher: Fratelli Bocca; Fondazione Biblioteca Bozzano. Editor: Prof. Angelo Marzorati, Gastone de Boni, Antonio Bruers. Succeeded by: La Ricerca Psichica (name change, 1932-1934) 1/1, December 1900 -- present (?) 48-56 pp., L. 2,50 in Italy, 3.00 abroad. The journal began in 1894 with a short-lived (6 issues) literary weekly issued by Marzorati (1862 -1931), a poet and antiquarian. The name of the journal was changed in 1932 to Ricerca Psichica and then changed back to the original in 1934, under which name it continued until it was suppressed in 1939. It was begun again at Christmas 1946. A journal of the original name was published in Verona and Bologna in 1940 which may related to this journal. This was the organ of the Societa di Studi Psichici of Milan, whose fellows were a who's who of (primarily) Italian parapsychologists. It had contributions by Cesare Lombroso, A. de Rochas, V. Cavalli, A. Morelli, F. Zingaropoli, F. Ametta, E. Bozzano, et al. Crabtree 1491. LOC; Civica Biblioteca e Archivi storici Angelo Mai; Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna; Biblioteca centrale Berio; Biblioteca Comunal; Biblioteca. Università Cattolica del S. Cuore; Biblioteca Nazionale V. Emanuele III; Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina; Biblioteca delle Facoltà Umanistiche dell'Università degli Studi di Sassari; Stanford University.
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Issues:	Luce E Ombra V2 1902
	Luce E Ombra V3 1903
	Luce E Ombra V7 1907
	Luce E Ombra V8 1908
	Luce E Ombra V9 1909
	Luce E Ombra V10 1910
	Luce E Ombra V11 1911
	Luce E Ombra V12 1912
	Luce E Ombra V13 1913
	Luce E Ombra V15 1915
	Luce E Ombra V16 1916
	Luce E Ombra V17 1917
	Luce E Ombra V18 1918
	Luce E Ombra V19 1919
	Luce E Ombra V20 1920
	Luce E Ombra V21 1921
	Luce E Ombra V22 1922
	Luce E Ombra V23 1923
	Luce E Ombra V24 1924
	Luce E Ombra V25 1925
	Luce E Ombra V26 1926
	Luce E Ombra V27 1927
	Luce E Ombra V28 1928
	Luce E Ombra V29 1929
Claude-Generated Themes:	Luce e Ombra — Light and Shadow — founded at Milan in 1901 and later published from Rome, was the principal Italian review of scientific spiritism and of metapsichica, the term Italian investigators preferred for what the English called psychical research. It was the venue in which Ernesto Bozzano and the survivalist wing of the Italian movement pressed the case that mediumistic phenomena were real and pointed to the survival of consciousness after death. Its pages combine séance reportage — materialisations, tangible phantom forms, trance and control, in a country whose most famous medium was Eusapia Palladino — with a persistent methodological argument: how long a premonition may run before it ceases to count, why children too young to conjure cannot be dismissed as tricksters, what suggestion and telepathy can and cannot explain. The review read the French Kardecist literature closely without adopting its doctrine, and printed foreign contributions in their own languages. It is a cornerstone of Italian psychical research and a bridge between the séance room and the academic study of the paranormal. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Mediumship and Channelling \| Psychical Research and Parapsychology \| Spiritualism