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Il Corriere Dei Piccoli
The ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' (Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones"), later nicknamed ''Corrierino'' ("Little Courier"), was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a regular feature of publishing comic strips. Publication history ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' was established in 1908. The first issue (24 pages, 80,000 copies) was published on 27 December 1908, with Silvio Spaventa Filippi as editor-in-chief. It was founded by Luigi Albertini. The magazine was formally a supplement for children of '' Corriere della Sera'', but it was also sold separately for 0.10 lira Its upmarket rival '' Il giornalino della Domenica'', founded in 1906, sold for two and a half times the price. At its acme, the magazine sold 700,000 copies. By 1970 the magazine started having financial difficulties due to rising costs and competition by other magazines and comics books. Feeling that the quaint name was partly to blame, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gli Aristocratici
''Gli Aristocratici'' ("''The Aristocrats''") is an Italian comic strip series created in 1973 by Alfredo Castelli and Ferdinando Tacconi. Background The comics was first published in 1973 by the comics magazine ''Il Corriere dei Ragazzi''. It features a group of gentlemen thieves who donate to charity the money of their thefts. During their stories they also encountered famous literary and cinematographic characters such as Sherlock Holmes, James Bond or Inspector Clouseau.Franco Fossati, ''I grandi eroi del fumetto'', Gramese, 1990, pp. 30–31 The series obtained a moderate success in Italy and was translated in 18 foreign countries. In 1983 it generated a spin-off, ''Agente Allen'', published by ''Il Giornalino''. ''Gli Aristocratici'' also appeared, as supporting characters, in a number of stories of ''Martin Mystère''. Characters The main characters in the comic are: * The Earl, a British gentleman and also the leader of the group, * Moose, an Irish strongman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Franchi
Anna Franchi (Livorno, 15 January 1867 - Milan, 4 December 1954) was an Italian novelist, translator, playwright and journalist. Biography Early life Franchi was born into the well-to-do Livorno family of Cesare Franchi, a merchant, and his wife Iginia Rugani. Franchi learned from her father, a follower of Giuseppe Mazzini, to love the Risorgimento heroes, those who were part of the popular movement to consolidate the independent states on the Italian peninsula into the single entity to form a new Kingdom of Italy. Her education included the study of the classics and music. A passionate pianist, she began taking lessons from a young and established composer from her hometown, violist Ettore Martini, starting in 1881. Anna married Martini on 3 February 1883 when she was only about 16 years old. Eventually, the pair performed concerts together in Arezzo, Italy and then in Florence. Much later, Franchi wrote in her book, ''My Life,'' about the feeling of accompanying Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Buzzelli
Guido Buzzelli (27 July 1927 – 25 January 1992) was an Italian comic book artist, writer, illustrator and painter. Biography Buzzelli was born in Rome into a family in which his grandfather had been a decorator, his father a painter, and his mother a model. He frequented the Academy of St. Luke and initially decided to follow his father's steps. Later, however, he entered the workshop of Rino Albertarelli, one of the main Italian comic book artists of the time, debuting in the 1950s with the magazine ''Zorro''; he also provided covers for magazines of the publisher Fratelli Spada. Other Buzzelli comics of the time include ''Susan Bill'', ''Alex l'eroe dello spazio'', ''Bill dei Marines'', '' Bambola'' and ''Dray Tigre''. Later, he moved to Spain and then to England, where he produced the strip ''Angélique'' for the ''Daily Mirror''. After his return to Italy and his marriage to Grazia de Stefani (1960), he initially devoted himself to painting. He returned to comics with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Jacovitti
Benito Jacovitti (; March 19, 1923 – December 3, 1997) was an Italian comics artist. Biography Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Molise. He was still a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the village's streets. The son of a railwayman, Benito entered Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating to Firenze's art institute five years later. Here he received the nickname ''lisca di pesce'' ("fishbone") because of his thin figure, that he will use as his signature during his career. In 1939 Jacovitti started working for the Florentine satirical magazine ''Il Brivido'' and, a year later, he began an almost 30 years long collaboration with '' Il Vittorioso'', a Catholic comic magazine targeted at teenagers and young adults that only published Italian artists. There he created several characters: Pippo, Pertica e Palla, Oreste il guastafeste, Chicchiricchì, Cip l'arcipoliziotto and his nemesis Zagar, Giacinto corsaro dipinto, Jack Mandolino, La signora Carlomagno, ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Uggeri
Mario Uggeri (17 February 1924 – 8 March 2004) was an Italian comic artist, illustrator and painter. Life and career Born in Codogno, after getting a degree of technical engineer at young age Uggeri was an actor and a production designer in a stage company.Luciano Secchi. "Uggeri, Mario". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. pp.741-2. During the World War II he became a partisan in the Italian resistance movement, and captured by Germans he was interned for two years in the Dachau concentration camp. Freed in 1945, the same year he started his career a comic artist, realizing the series ''Revegant'' for Torelli Editore. In 1947 he created the comic strip ''Le avventure del partigiano Pesce'' for the newspaper ', and in 1949 he started his most successful character, ''Rocky Rider'', published in the magazines ''Intrepido'' and '' Il Monello'' until 1963. In 1959 he started a long collaboration with the children magazine ''Corriere dei Piccoli'', for w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Toppi
Sergio Toppi (11 October 1932, Milan – 21 August 2012, Milan) Ilmessaggero.it was an and comics author. Career Early Career Sergio Toppi was born in Milan, Italy. Initially enrolled as a medical student, Toppi devoted himself to an artistic career starting in the 1950s, creating illustrations for the UTET Children's Encyclopedia. Alongside this project, he began collaborating on a series of animated advertisin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Di Gennaro , a town in Argentina
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Aldo may refer to: * Aldo (given name), male given name ** Aldo (footballer, born 1977) ** Aldo (footballer, born 1988) * Aldo Group, a worldwide chain of shoe stores * Aldosterone in shorthand * Aldo Bonzi Aldo Bonzi is a town in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. The town owes its name to Turin-born businessman Dr. Aldo Bonzi (1852–1935), who arrived in Argentina in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Battaglia
Dino Battaglia (1 August 1923 – 4 October 1983) was an Italian comic artist, noted for a distinctive and expressive style, best known for his visual adaptations of classic novels. In 1946 Dino Battaglia became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Hugo Pratt and Damiano Damiani. Biography Born in Venice, Battaglia first entered the comic book profession in 1946 co-founding and producing work for the Italian magazine '' Asso di Picche'', where he drew some pages of the '' Junglemen'' series. Here he worked with other Venetian artists, among them Hugo Pratt and Alberto Ongaro. When ''Asso di Picche'' folded in 1948, the Venetian Group (as they became known) moved to Argentina to work for Italian publisher Cesar Civita. Battaglia remained behind in Italy, opting for marriage instead of joining the Argentine move, but he drew the pirate strip ''Capitan Caribe'', written by Ongaro and published in Héctor Germán Oesterheld's magazine ''Frontera'', and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino Penati
Lino may refer to: * Lino, short for linoleum, a common flooring material * Lino, slang for linesman, the former name (still in widespread common use) for an assistant referee in football * Lino, slang for a habitual user of the narcotic cocaine. LINO is also a politics-related acronym for: * Libertarian In Name Only * Liberal In Name Only * Labour In Name Only Lino is also a male given name. * Pope Linus, second Pope, alive during first century * Lino Cayetano, Filipino politician * Lino Facioli, Brazilian actor * Lino Lacedelli (1925–2009), Italian mountaineer * Lino Rulli, American talk radio host * Lino Saputo, Canadian businessman and founder of the Canadian-based cheese manufacturer Saputo, Inc. * Lino Tagliapietra, glass artist * Lino Ventura, an Italian actor who starred in French movies Lino is also the surname of * Pascal Lino, a French former road racing cyclist * Paulo Rui Lino Borges (born 1971), Portuguese footballer known as Lino Lino is the title / stage nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Pratt
Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as ''Corto Maltese''. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1946 Hugo Pratt became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Dino Battaglia and Damiano Damiani. Biography Early years Born in Rimini, Italy to Rolando Prat and Evelina (Genero) Prat, Ugo Eugenio Prat spent much of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment. His paternal grandfather Joseph was Catholic of English and Provencal origins, his maternal grandfather was of hidden Jewish descent and his grandmother was of Turkish origin. In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), joining his father who had moved there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy. Pratt's father, a MVSN NCO, was ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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