Il Re Nudo (First 19 Issues).
Milano: Arti Grafiche La Monzese, 1970-1973. First Editions. Quarto. Run of the first 19 issues of the influential counterculture magazine Il Re Nudo (i.e. The Naked King); lifting its title from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes. While reporting on political developments from Italy's infamous Years of Lead—including some of the earliest communiqués from the Red Brigades—these early issues of the magazine turned special attention across the Atlantic, with dozens of features on American counterculture (e.g. Burroughs, Dylan, Ginsberg, marijuana, Leary, LSD, Rubin) and radicalism (e.g. Angela Davis, Black Panthers, gay rights, the Weather Underground, Women's Lib, Young Lords). With write-ups on the first few iterations of the Re Nudo Pop Festival, through which the magazine attempted to organize its movement as libidinal force. Contents: self-wrappers, 16 pages; thoroughly illustrated, with the stunning lysergic printing style of the period. A remarkably well-preserved set; minor foxing to covers of No. 4, else all issues uniformly near fine to fine.
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