Bruno Angoletta

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Bruno Angoletta (7 September 1889 - 7 January 1954) was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and painter.

Angoletta was born in Belluno, from Orlando, a lawyer, and Francesca Bettio. [1] For some years he studied law in Padua, but later abandoned his studies to entirely focusing into drawing and painting as an autodidact. [1] [2] In late 1900s he started a collaboration as an illustrator with the satirical weekly magazine L'Asino , then he moved to Rome where he also began to collaborate with the magazine La tribuna illustrata. [1]

At the outbreak of the First World War, despite his pericarditis, he volunteered, was wounded and taken prisoner in Bohemia but even performed acts of heroism that earned him two decorations. [1]

In 1921, he founded with Antonio Beltramelli the monthly children magazine Giro Giro Tondo, published by Mondadori. [1]

In January 1928, in the pages of Corriere dei Piccoli , Angoletta started his most successful comic character, the soldier Marmittone, a mild-mannered young soldier who often, due to its mild-tempered and not inclined to war, ends up being punished and translated into the cell. The comic strip was published until 1940. [3]

Other well known comic characters he created in the period between the two wars were Sor Calogero Sorbara, Ermete Centarbe and Romolino & Romoletto, a couple of twins often glorifying the Fascist victories.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Paola Pallottino. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 34. Treccani, 1988.
  2. ↑ Paola Pallottino (26 May 2001). "Bruno Angoletta. Girotondo di colori per grandi e piccini". La Stampa . p. 12.
  3. ↑ B.P. Boschesi, Manuale dei fumetti, Mondadori, 1976, pp. 32-33.

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