Ciak is a popular Italian film magazine published in Milan , Italy . It is the most popular film magazine in Italy. The title is the Italian word (also spelled ciac ) for a film clapperboard .
61-504: Ciak was established in 1985 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore . Each year the magazine publishes the Power List: a list of the most influential figures in the Italian film industry. The Ciak d'oro ( Golden Ciak ) is an Italian annual film award. It was established in 1986 by the magazine Ciak . It is the only award of Italian cinema that has the audience as jury: the readers of the magazine vote
122-549: A lieutenant ( Italian : tenente ) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army . The novel describes a love affair between the American expatriate and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Its publication ensured Hemingway's place as a modern American writer of considerable stature. The book became his first best-seller and has been called "the premier American war novel from [...] World War I". The title might be taken from
183-630: A rowboat . Because of a storm, the waters are choppy and rough. Frederic rows the boat all night, and Catherine also takes a turn rowing. Finally, they reach Switzerland. The guards verify their identity and provide them provisional visas for staying in Switzerland. Frederic and Catherine live a quiet life in the mountains. They move to a wooden house on a mountain outside the village of Montreux . They develop new acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Guttingen. At times, Catherine starts getting concerned about their child, especially about its health. They move to
244-523: A 16th‑century poem of the same name by the English dramatist George Peele . The novel has been adapted a number of times: initially for the stage in 1930; as a film in 1932, and again in 1957; and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The film In Love and War , made in 1996, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in events prior to his writing of A Farewell to Arms . The novel
305-419: A Lady by T. S. Eliot also starts off by quoting this Marlowe work: "Thou hast committed / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dead." Hemingway's library included both works by Eliot and Marlowe. There are at least two copies of the first edition into which Hemingway had re-inserted the censored text by hand to provide a corrected text. One of these copies
366-647: A Paris-based fashion correspondent, became Helen Ferguson. The unnamed priest was based on Don Giuseppe Bianchi, the priest of the 69th and 70th regiments of the Brigata Ancona. Although the sources for Rinaldi are unknown, the character had already appeared in In Our Time . Much of the plot was written in correspondence with Frederic J. Agate. Agate, Hemingway's friend, had a collection of letters to his wife from his time in Italy, which were later used as inspiration. Michael Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway
427-597: A change in Frederic and also predicts that the war will end soon. Frederic travels to Bainsizza , where he meets Gino, who tells him about an artillery battery of terrifying guns that the Austrians have. Frederic realizes that Italians will not escape if the Austrians attack. It rains heavily, and the bombarding begins. Frederic discovers that morale has severely dropped. Not long afterwards, the Austro-Hungarians break through
488-507: A comparison of Mondadori financial performance over the last 10 years. The figures for 2018 are presented in accordance with IFRS 5, not including the figures for the asset sold (Mondadori France). A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway , set during the Italian campaign of World War I . First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as
549-514: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Arnoldo Mondadori Editore ( Italian: [arˈnɔldo mondaˈdoːri ediˈtoːre] ) is the biggest publishing company in Italy. The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with
610-536: Is divided into five sections, or "books". Frederic Henry narrates the story in the first-person. Lieutenant Frederic Henry is an American medic serving in the Italian Army , who speaks Italian . The novel begins during the First World War. It is the start of winter, when a cholera epidemic kills thousands of soldiers. Frederic visits Gorizia , where he meets other army fellows and the priest. He finds there are two brothels – one for officers and
671-481: Is knowingly keeping himself ill to avoid the war front. She files a report for the cancellation of convalescent leave, and Frederic is called back to the war front. Catherine informs him that she is three-months pregnant. They promise to reunite and marry after his return from war. Frederic asks her to take care of "Little Catherine". Frederic returns to Gorizia. Rinaldi comes and examines his wounded leg. He further asks whether they have married or not. The priest notices
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#1732876009468732-513: Is particularly active in the area of religion and books for children and young adults. A group based in Milan with three imprints: Electa , active in the art and history of art sector since 1945; Mondadori , which publishes illustrated books in areas such as nature, hobbies and history as well as tourist guides; and Mondadori Arte , intended to present art, architecture, design and archeology to non-specialist audiences. Formerly Edumond Le Monnier ,
793-503: Is the chairman. In 1989, Mondadori expanded into Mexico by acquiring Editorial Grijalbo. Beginning in 2001, Mondadori operated a joint venture with Random House in Spanish-speaking countries. Random House bought out Mondadori's stake in 2012. In 2006, Mondadori took a big step forward in its international expansion with the acquisition of Emap France, one of France's leading magazine publishers, today Mondadori France. Mondadori
854-471: The Italian front and is sent to the hospital. Surgeon Rinaldi visits Frederic in the hospital and praises him for his heroism, but Frederic denies any display of such. Rinaldi also tells him that he will be shifted to a hospital in Milan soon for a better treatment. Frederic requests him to have Catherine there as a nurse. The priest pays a visit. In a discussion again, Frederic expresses his views against war. Meanwhile, America has declared war on Germany, and
915-678: The Toronto Star he poured scorn on Mussolini, calling him "the biggest bluff in Europe". But, apart from the official reactions, it is known that Mussolini did not like the article at all: Hemingway described Mussolini as trying to impress the media by pretending to be deeply absorbed in reading, while in reality he was holding a French–English dictionary upside down. The Italian translation had in fact already been prepared illegally in 1943 by Fernanda Pivano , leading to her arrest in Turin . A Farewell to Arms
976-562: The Foreign Ministry (Palácio Itamaraty) in Brasilia three years earlier. Construction began in 1971 and the new headquarters was inaugurated in January 1975. Through a joint venture with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso in 1976, Mondadori published La Repubblica , its first daily newspaper; Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso was finally separated from Mondadori in 1991. In 1981 Mondadori entered
1037-553: The Group's e-books available through the Kindle store. In September 2011, Mondadori's digital titles were also made available on the iBookstore for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The following year Mondadori Group and Kobo Inc., a leading company globally in digital reading, signed an accord for the distribution in Italy of Kobo's eReading platform and related devices. In 2014 Mondadori bought
1098-434: The Italian army is also anxious about war against Austria. Frederic reaches an American hospital in Milan. There he is nursed by Miss Gage, Mrs. Walker and their Superintendent Miss Van Campen. Miss Gage arranges wine for him. Catherine arrives there, and Frederic realizes a strong sense of love and passion for her. They make love for the first time. Doctor Valentini comes to examine his injury and X-rays. This book portrays
1159-611: The Italian lines in the Battle of Caporetto , and the Italians retreat. The houses are evacuated. Women and children are loaded in trucks. At the villa, Frederic discovers that Rinaldi has taken off for the hospital; everyone else has evacuated too. There is considerable delay and chaos on the road during the retreat, and Frederic, wishing to avoid a possible aerial attack while stuck on the main retreat route, decides to take an alternate path. He and his men quickly get lost, and their cars are stuck in
1220-578: The May 1929 to October 1929 issues. The book was published in September 1929 with a first edition print-run of approximately 31,000 copies. The success of A Farewell to Arms made Hemingway financially independent. The Hemingway Library Edition was released in July 2012, with a dust jacket facsimile of the first edition. The newly published edition presents an appendix with the many alternate endings Hemingway wrote for
1281-543: The Tagliamento river. As soon as they cross the bridge, Frederic is taken by the military police to a place on the river bank where officers are being interrogated and executed for the "treachery" that supposedly led to the Italian defeat. Frederic escapes by jumping into the river. Afterwards, he walks through the plains and jumps aboard a moving train to Milan to find Catherine. Reaching Milan, he learns that Catherine has left for Stresa . He goes to visit Ralph Simmons, one of
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#17328760094681342-520: The agreement between Mondadori and the Walt Disney Company ended (the comics rights were transferred to The Walt Disney Company Italy ). In 1950 Mondadori returned to the information magazines, abandoned ten years earlier with the suspension, due to the war, of the monthly Tempo . The weekly Epoca was started, which imported the American model of photojournalism into Italy. A few years later, in 1962, Mondadori published Panorama . The magazine
1403-465: The best film, the best director, the best leading actors and the best foreign film of the season, instead the best supporting actors and the winners of the Ciak d'oro for technical categories and for Best Debut are designed by a jury of film critics and specialized journalists. Public voted categories Judge categories Public voted categories This Italian magazine or academic journal-related article
1464-460: The best-known Italian book publishers, with early collaborations with Disney and the Il Giallo Mondadori series of mystery/crime novels. Founded in 1933 by Giulio Einaudi in Turin , it became one of the most significant Italian publishing houses of the twentieth century. Its authors included Cesare Pavese , Elio Vittorini , Italo Calvino , Leone Ginzburg and Bruno Zevi , and it was
1525-537: The case to Civil Section I. This section was chaired by Arnaldo Valente and the Judge-Rapporteur was Vittorio Metta. The ruling was made public on 24 January 1991 and nullified the arbitrary award verdict and gave the Mondadori shares back to Berlusconi's Fininvest. In 1995, after receiving some proclamations, the judiciary started investigating the authenticity of the ruling. It turned out that Berlusconi won thanks to
1586-545: The corruption of Judge Vittorio Metta. Metta was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, but won an appeal in 2005. The Supreme Court of Cassation nullified that appeal in 2006, and Vittorio Metta was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months in 2007. Berlusconi has not been sentenced. The trial expired for time limit. The group today includes several distinct publishing houses, a number of which have more than one imprint: Founded in 1907 by Arnoldo Mondadori in Ostiglia , but based in Milan since 1919, Edizioni Mondadori became one of
1647-502: The first Italian mail-order book club and in 1965 became the first Italian publishing house to launch low-cost paperbacks for sale through newsstands (Oscar Mondadori), an experiment that would be a huge success and that was imitated by many publishers. The aim of the series was to reach an audience not used to buying in bookshops. The first novel published was A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway , who immediately experienced great results in terms of copies sold. Between 1950 and 1965,
1708-445: The growth of Frederic's relationship with Catherine over the summer. They enjoy boating and horse races. Meanwhile, Frederic meets Helen Ferguson, a fellow nurse of Catherine. After his knee heals, Frederic is diagnosed with jaundice . A three-weeks convalescent leave is sanctioned for him. Miss Van Campen discovers empty liquor bottles in Frederic's room and takes alcoholism as the cause for his condition. She also concludes that Frederic
1769-604: The honor of the Armed Forces , both in its description of the Battle of Caporetto and because of a certain anti-militarism implied in the work. More than one biographer has suggested that, at the base of the censorship of the Fascist regime in the novel, there had also been a personal antipathy between the writer and Benito Mussolini . Hemingway had interviewed him in 1923, shortly after he had seized power, and in Hemingway's article in
1830-423: The hospital and walks back to his hotel in the rain. The novel was partly based on Hemingway's own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War. The inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky , a nurse who cared for Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been wounded. He had planned to marry her, but she spurned his love when he returned to America. Kitty Cannell ,
1891-448: The international distribution of books produced by the Group's publishing houses on Google Books and Google eBooks. Thanks to an accord with Vodafone Italia, in 2011 Mondadori launched the first online newsstand for tablets. Through this new platform, it is possible to access the digital edition of the Group's major weeklies and monthlies. The digital development continued in July 2011 with an agreement between Mondadori and Amazon that makes
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1952-403: The mud, Frederic orders the two engineering sergeants riding with Bonello to help. Afraid of being overtaken by the enemy, they refuse and try to leave. Frederic draws his gun and shoots one of them; the other escapes. One of the drivers, Aymo, is later killed, while another, Bonello, runs away to surrender to the Austrians. Frederic and his last companion, Piani, catch up to the main retreat across
2013-440: The novel in addition to pieces from early draft manuscripts. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Hemingway collection has two handwritten pages with possible titles for the book. Most of the titles come from The Oxford Book of English Verse . One of the possible titles Hemingway considered was In Another Country and Besides . This comes from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe . The poem Portrait of
2074-413: The number of employees at Mondadori rose from 335 to 3,000 and resulted in the company's decision to construct a new building in the outskirts of Milan, specifically within the municipality of Segrate. In 1968, Giorgio Mondadori, Arnoldo's son and chairman of the publishing house, decided to assign the project for the new headquarters to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer , after having admired his work on
2135-458: The opera singers that he encountered earlier, and asks about the procedures for traveling to Switzerland. Ralph helps him, giving him civilian clothes. Frederic feels very odd in those clothes, as the people look at him scornfully. He reaches Stresa by train and goes to the Grand Hotel et des Iles Borromées . Emilio, a bartender, informs him that two English nurses are staying at a small hotel near
2196-423: The other for lower-rank soldiers. On his return, he shares his experience with his friend, Surgeon Rinaldi, who is about the same age as Frederic. Rinaldi is fond of beautiful women. He has fallen in love with an English nurse named Catherine Barkley, though not so seriously. Rinaldi takes Frederic to a British hospital, where Frederic is introduced to, and attracted to, Catherine. She tells him about her fiancé, who
2257-399: The public was positive, with five thousand copies sold in a month and eight thousand after a hundred days. In addition to those who are considered the masters of the genre, such as Raymond Chandler , Dashiell Hammett , Georges Simenon , Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner , in 1931 even some Italian writers began to take an interest in the genre and write yellow novels. As a result of
2318-579: The publication of the magazine Luce! . In 1912 he founded La Sociale and published the first book AiaMadama together with his close friend Tommaso Monicelli and the following year, La Lampada , a series of children's books. The publishing house kept working intensely even during the First World War , mainly on the publication of magazines for the troops on the front such as La Tradotta , which included contributions from famous illustrators and writers such as Soffici, De Chirico and Carrà . In 1919
2379-722: The publisher of Antonio Gramsci ’s Prison Notebooks . It was acquired by Mondadori in 1994. Based in Trieste and publishing children's books under the imprints EL , Einaudi Ragazzi and Emme Edizione . Giulio Einaudi editore has a 50% stake in the company. Acquired by Mondadori in the 1980s, this publishing house founded in 1899 is one of the oldest publishing houses in Milan. Its traditional international focus, and concentration on current affairs, has been supplemented in recent years by publications in fiction, non-fiction, economics, manuals and popular science. Its imprints include Frassinelli . Acquired by Mondadori in 2003, Edizioni Piemme
2440-465: The publishing house headquarters were transferred to Milan . After the First World War, Mondadori launched several successful book series including Gialli Mondadori in 1929, the first example of an Italian book series dedicated to detective and crime novels, by international writers, a new genre for Italy. The series is distinguished by the yellow (giallo in Italian) color of the covers. The response from
2501-476: The same kind of unprecedented success it gained in the English-language world: with more than 3.3 million copies sold in Italy and 130,000 downloads of the electronic version, the three volumes reached first, third and fourth position of the bestseller list for 2012. In 2015–16, the acquisitions of RCS Libri (was renamed to Rizzoli Libri ) from RCS MediaGroup as well as Banzai Media mark the culmination of
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2562-509: The strategy launched in 2013 of focusing on the traditional core businesses: books and magazines. In 2016, the Italian Competition Authority ruled that Mondadori would have to divest the publishers Bompiani and Marsilio Editori, following its acquisition of RCS Libri. Marsilio Editori was sold by Rizzoli Libri to De Michelis family's GEM S.r.l. while Bompiani was sold to Giunti Editore for €16.5 million. As part of
2623-400: The strategy of focusing on its core businesses, in 2018 the Group sold Panorama and in 2019 its subsidiary Mondadori France to Reworld Media . Between 1989 and 1991, there was a financial conflict between Silvio Berlusconi and Carlo De Benedetti , two of the largest employers of those years. In 1988 Berlusconi bought Leonardo Mondadori's (nephew of Arnoldo Mondadori) shares. Mondadori
2684-496: The success and longevity of the series, still on newsstands, " giallo " has become the Italian name of the literary genre. Despite a period of cultural autarky , in 1933 Mondadori started publishing works of international writers with the Medusa book series. In 1935, through an agreement with Walt Disney , the publishing house began the publication of a children's magazines based on Disney comics characters, which ran until 1988, when
2745-515: The television business with the launch of the Rete Quattro TV station, which was sold to Fininvest a few years later. In the same year, through a joint venture with Canada's Harlequin Enterprises , the romantic fiction book series Harmony began to be published in Italy. The company has been controlled by Fininvest , Silvio Berlusconi 's family holding company since 1991. Marina Berlusconi
2806-422: The theme of A Farewell to Arms : "After ten years of meditation and digestive of his experience, Hemingway lays before his readers a work which is far from a mere war experience, nor a story of love and death during the war." However, since publication, A Farewell to Arms has also been the target of various controversy. Upon its flimsy publication—due to the medium of its release—through Scribner's Magazine , it
2867-408: The town of Lausanne to be closer to the hospital. Later, Catherine goes into labor and is taken to the hospital. The doctor tells Frederic that the best solution would be a Cesarean operation. She suffers a lot of pain and finally delivers a stillborn baby boy. Later the nurse tells him that Catherine is hemorrhaging. He is terrified. He goes to see her, and she dies with him by her side. He leaves
2928-475: The trademark and assets of aNobii, the global social reading platform with more than a million users around the world, of which around 300,000 in Italy, with the aim of supporting the process of growth in digital for books. In 2012 Mondadori published Fifty Shades of Grey , the first volume of the erotic trilogy by debut London author E L James , rapidly followed by the two other titles, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed . The trilogy saw in Italy
2989-495: The train station. Frederic meets Catherine and Helen Ferguson there. He also meets Count Greffi, a very old nobleman whom Frederic had met on his last visit to Stresa. Greffi is staying with his niece. Frederic avoids Catherine's question about the war experiences. He feels that he is a criminal, a war deserter. Emilio informs him that Italian police are looking to arrest him. Catherine and Frederic plan to flee to Switzerland as Emilio makes all possible arrangements for their travel in
3050-559: The unanimous decision of an arbitrary award to solve the conflict. On 20 June 1990 was the first verdict: the agreement between De Benedetti and Formenton was considered still valid; as a consequence, the Mondadori shares became owned by the CIR (De Benedetti) and Berlusconi left the chairmanship of the company. Berlusconi and the Formentons then appealed at the Appeal Court of Rome, which assigned
3111-600: Was acquired in 2008 and based in Milan, Bologna and Florence. Founded in 1927, Rizzoli is a large general publishing house which publishes works of fiction and non-fiction, books for young adults, graphic novels, manuals and illustrated books. Rizzoli Education is a leader in Italian school publishing, where it is present in every order of instruction through publishing products (paper and digital), services and technologies for students, families and teachers. Mondadori owns 41.66% of Greece 's Attica Publications S.A. , Athens DeeJay (Greece), and Rock FM (Greece) . Table with
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#17328760094683172-554: Was announced, with Michael Winterbottom to direct and Tom Blyth to star. The 1996 film In Love and War , directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock , depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in the events prior to his writing of A Farewell to Arms . A radio broadcast adaption was produced in 1937 as part of the Lux Radio Theater series starring Clark Gable and Josephine Hutchinson . In 2011, BBC Radio 4 produced
3233-455: Was awaiting delivery of their baby. Pauline underwent a caesarean section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth. Hemingway struggled with the ending. By his count, he wrote 39 versions of it "before [he] was satisfied". However, a 2012 edition of the book included no fewer than 47 alternate endings. The novel was first serialized in Scribner's Magazine in
3294-410: Was banned from Boston newsstands due to accusations of a pornographic nature, despite Hemingway's deliberate exclusion of graphic descriptions of sex, using omission as a literary device. The novel was first adapted for the stage by Laurence Stallings in 1930, then as a film in 1932 , with a 1957 remake . A three-part television miniseries was made in 1966. In December 2023, a new film adaptation
3355-442: Was founded as a monthly information magazine and it was only in 1967 that it became a weekly, inspired by the editorial formula of Time and Newsweek , and was transformed into a successful newsmagazine. In 1952 Mondadori launched I romanzi di Urania (Urania's novels), a twice monthly Italian science fiction magazine that contributed to the wider diffusion of this genre in Italy. In 1960 Mondadori launched Il Club degli Editori,
3416-403: Was killed in battle, and also about feeling uncomfortable in the rain, as it starts to rain. Frederic tries to kiss her, but she refuses and slaps him. She regrets doing so and eventually warms to him and they kiss. Frederic and his fellow drivers (Passini, Manera, Gordini and Gavuzzi) take the ambulance into war. Passini is killed in a mortar attack. Frederic is severely wounded in the knee on
3477-410: Was met with favorable criticism and is considered one of Hemingway's best literary works. Gore Vidal wrote of the text: "... a work of ambition, in which can be seen the beginning of the careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone that since has marked ... [Hemingway's] prose". The last line of the 1929 New York Times review reads: "It is a moving and beautiful book." Baker remarks on
3538-613: Was not involved in the battles described. Because his previous novel, The Sun Also Rises , had been written as a roman à clef , readers assumed A Farewell to Arms to be autobiographical. A Farewell to Arms was begun during his time at Willis M. Spear's guest ranch in Wyoming's Bighorns. Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott , Arkansas, at the home of his then-wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and in Mission Hills , Kansas, while she
3599-484: Was one of the first Italian publishers to enter the e-book market and in 2000 an agreement was signed with Microsoft Corporation for the creation of the first Italian site for the sale of electronic books. In 2010 Mondadori accelerated its presence: in June, the Group's online bookstore launched a store dedicated to digital books, with a vast catalogue of titles in Italian and English. In December, Mondadori reached an agreement for
3660-514: Was presented to Maurice Coindreau , the other to James Joyce . Hemingway's corrected text has not been incorporated into modern published editions of the novel, but there are some audiobook versions that are uncensored. A Farewell to Arms was banned in the Irish Free State . Also, the novel could not be published in Italy until 1948 because the Fascist regime considered it detrimental to
3721-583: Was then owned by three: Berlusconi's Fininvest , Carlo De Benedetti's CIR and the Formenton family (Arnoldo Mondadori's heir). Carlo De Benedetti convinced the Formentons to conclude an agreement that would allow him to obtain the Formenton's shares by 30 January 1991, but in November 1989 the Formenton family sided with Berlusconi, allowing him to become the new Mondadori chairman on 25 January 1990; De Benedetti then protested, citing its agreement. The three sides took
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