Bertoldo

For other uses, see Bertoldo (disambiguation).

Bertoldo

Editor	Giovannino Guareschi
Categories	Humour magazine
Frequency	Biweekly
First issue	14 July 1936
Final issue	10 September 1943
Country	Kingdom of Italy
Based in	Milan
Language	Italian

Bertoldo was a biweekly magazine of surreal humour that ran from 14 July 1936 to 10 September 1943 under Italian Fascism. The magazine was based in Milan. ^[1] While the Becco Giallo magazine put out courageous political satire against the fascist regime, the reactionary authors of Bertoldo, like Marcello Marchesi, as well as Marc'Aurelio , developed a kind of surreal humour that was accepted by the regime. ^{[2] [3]}

Some of the best young artists and writers worked on the magazine. ^[4] Among them were the popular author Giovannino Guareschi (1908–1968), and the Romanian Jewish architect-student (later famous American cartoonist) Saul Steinberg (1914–1999). ^[5] Guareschi edited the magazine from 1936 to 1943. ^[1]

Bertoldo was succeeded by another satirical magazine, Candido . ^[6]

References

1. Roy P. Domenico; Mark Y. Hanley (1 January 2006). Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 260. ISBN   978-0-313-32362-1.
2. Un Novecento da ridere Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine di Alessandro Frigerio.
3. Leonardo De Franceschi (2001). Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli. Marsilio. p. 28. ISBN   978-88-317-7763-6.
4. Giovanni Mosca. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 77 (2012).
5. Saul Steinberg's Italian Years (1933–1941) by Mario Tedeschini Lalli.
6. Dario Pasquini (2020). "Longing for Purity: Fascism and Nazism in the Italian and German Satirical Press (1943/1945–1963)" . European History Quarterly. 50 (3): 468. doi:10.1177/0265691420932251. S2CID   221015170.