Bertoldo

The Bertoldo was a weekly magazine of surreal humour that run under Italian Fascism. While the Becco Giallo magazine put out a courageus political satire against the fascist regime, the reactionary authors of the Bertoldo, like Marcello Marchesi, as well as thise of Marc'Aurelio, developed a kind of surreal humour that was accepted by the regime.[1][2]

There were employee of the best young artists and writers.[3] Among them, for example, popular author Giovannino Guareschi (1908—1968), and Romanian Jewish architect-student (later famous American cartoonist) Saul Steinberg (1914—1999).[4]

References

  1. ↑ Un Novecento da ridere di Alessandro Frigerio.
  2. ↑ Mario Monicelli in De Franceschi, Leonardo (2001) Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli, p.28
  3. ↑ Giovanni Mosca. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 77 (2012).
  4. ↑ Saul Steinberg's Italian Years (1933—1941) by Mario Tedeschini Lalli.