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]
| 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 |
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]
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- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Un Novecento da ridere Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine di Alessandro Frigerio.
- ^ Leonardo De Franceschi (2001). Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli. Marsilio. p. 28. ISBN 978-88-317-7763-6.
- ^ Giovanni Mosca. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 77 (2012).
- ^ Saul Steinberg's Italian Years (1933–1941) by Mario Tedeschini Lalli.
- ^ 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.