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L'Arena

Italian local daily newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ3817957 ↗
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L'Arena is an Italian local daily newspaper, based in Verona, Italy.

History and profile

Founded in 1866, shortly before the annexation of Veneto into the Kingdom of Italy, L'Arena is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy and the most popular newspaper in Verona. The owner and publisher of the daily is Società Athesis.

Carlo Terron, Italian drama critic and playwright, worked for the newspaper at the beginning of the 1940s.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “L'Arena” as italian local daily newspaper. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1866—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1866-01-01. The account is most persuasive where L'Arena, Italian and local can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as italian local daily newspaper. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3817957. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1866.

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This entry incorporates text from “L'Arena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.