la Repubblica (meaning: "the Republic") is, as of 2008, the second largest circulation Italian daily general-interest newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera. 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 Radical/Socialist newspaper, it has since kept a centre-left political stance.

It was one of the first Italian newspapers to use Bodoni serif typefaces