High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! la Repubblica (Italian pronunciation: ; Italian for "The Republic") is, as of 2011, the largest circulationItalian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L`Espresso led by Eugenio Scalfari and Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a Radical/Socialist newspaper, it has since kept a centre-left political stance.