Bertoldo (magazine) – Wikipedia

The Bertoldo It was a periodic magazine of humor and satire published in Milan from 14 July 1936 to 10 September 1943 by Rizzoli. ^[first] Subsequently, other publishers published new editions of the magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. ^{[2] [3]}

From the Foundation to 1943 [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In Rome, a satirical newspaper, the Marc’Aurelio , which was very successful and Rizzoli decided to make one similar to Milan. In 1935 the humorist and narrator Cesare Zavattini was in charge of taking care of the project and he called some of the best illustrators of the moment, including Giovanni Mosca, Walter Faccini and Vittorio Metz – coming from the same Marc’Aurelio – And Giovannino Guareschi. The newspaper made his debut on July 14, 1936 directed by Zavattini himself.

The newspaper immediately established himself for his innovative style, completely new for the Italian cartoon: the “widowed” by Guareschi, the little crazy men of Moscow, the famous column Bertoldo They were examples of nonconformism and lightness that opposed the “swampy” style of the newspapers of the time. Unlike the Yellow beak And of his courageous political satire against fascism, the authors of Bertoldo instead expressed a surreal humor, deliberately keeping outside politics. A few years after the Foundation, Zavattini left the direction for Desapori with the publishing house, who put the Moscow-Metz couple in his place but the cohabitation had a short life and Giovanni Mosca was the sole director, assisted by Guareschi as the editor head. The newspaper in a short time took on a remarkable influence in Italy of the 1930s and did not escape the attention of Mussolini and the fascist regime.

The publications definitively ceased following the allied bombing of the newspaper headquarters in Piazza Carlo Erba in Milan. Useless was the attempt to resurrect the Bertoldo To make it a Filonazist propaganda newspaper, due to the refusal of the publisher Rizzoli to join the Italian Social Republic and collaborate with the Nazi -fascists ^[4] .

After the war [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

After the war, the newspaper resumed the publications. It was published monthly in pocket format from 1952 to 1953. The Bertoldo , directed by Sveno Tozzi, had the collaboration of various personalities of the way of the show, such as Renato Rascel and Mario Riva and published short stories by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Anton Čechov, Federico Fellini, Metz, Salveti and Mark Twain and cartoons of various Italian authors and Foreigners as well as comics with strips and American Sunday tables such as Blondie and Dagoberto of Chic Young, Li’l Abner of Al Capp, Little Lulu by John Stanley and Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. ^[2]

In the sixties there was a last attempt to relaunch the head of the publisher Gino Sansoni. The publications resumed in 1961. Sansoni gave space to a new group of authors, such as Pier Carpi, Giovan Battista Carpi, Nino Cannata and he himself with the pseudonym of Max Gardini. The releases continued until 1966 when the magazine closed after 41 issues. ^[3]

Bertoldo he published works of a large number of prestigious authors of Italian illustration and graphics: ^[first]