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Tango (Italian Magazine)
''Tango'' was a satirical insert of the Italian Communist Party, Italian Communist newspaper ''l'Unità''. History The first satirical insert of an Italian newspaper, it was founded by ''Bobo (Italian comics), Bobo'' creator Sergio Staino and followed the style of the major Italian satirical magazine ''Il Male'', of which it brought together numerous collaborators. Mostly consisting of cartoons and comics, among the collaborators of the magazine were Andrea Pazienza, Stefano Benni, Michele Serra, Domenico Starnone, Gino e Michele, Francesco Guccini, Roberto Vecchioni, Francesco De Gregori, Vincino, Francesco Tullio Altan, Altan, Ellekappa, Massimo Cavezzali, Renato Calligaro, Angese, Enzo Lunari, Paolo Hendel, David Riondino, .Bono, Gianni (2003). "Tango". ''Guida al fumetto italiano''. Epierre. p. 2006. The magazine raised several controversies, particularly with "Nattango", a cartoon depicting the then Communist secretary Alessandro Natta naked and dancing; originally a pole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Staino
Sergio Staino (8 June 1940 – 21 October 2023) was an Italian comics author, satirist, and film director. Biography Staino was born in Piancastagnaio, in the province of Siena. After graduating with a degree in architecture, he moved to Scandicci. His comics debut was with Bobo (Italian comics), Bobo, an autobiographical character, published in the magazine ''Linus (magazine), Linus'' starting in 1979. In the 1980s he began collaborating with the newspapers ''Il Messaggero'' and ''L'Unità''. In 1986 he founded the satirical magazine ''Tango (Italian magazine), Tango''. From 1987 to 1993 he directed satirical TV shows for Rai 3, such as ''Teletango'' and ''Cielito Lindo''; in this period he also directed two movies, ''Cavalli si nasce'' (1989) and ''Non chiamarmi Omar'' (1992). In 2016 he published his autobiography, ''Io sono Bobo'' (Della Porta), written with journalists Fabio Galati and Laura Montanari. On 8 September 2016 he became the new editor of ''L'Unità''. Long sick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Tullio Altan
Francesco Tullio Altan (born 30 September 1942) is an Italian comics artist and satirist. He was born in Treviso, the son of Friulan anthropologist Carlo Tullio Altan. He studied at the University IUAV of Venice, but halted his studies to work for cinema and TV as a scenographer and writer. In 1970 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he created his first comics series for children, published in a local newspaper. In 1974 he began collaborating with Italian publishers. In 1974, for the comics magazine ''Linus'', he created Trino, an unprepared god who has to create the world. In 1975, the year he returned to Italy, Altan created one of his most famous characters, Pimpa, initially published in '' Corriere dei Piccoli''. Pimpa, a female puppy with red polka dots, later became a cartoon for Italian television, under the direction of Enzo D'Alò. His other characters for adult readers include Cipputi, a communist industrial worker who was the subject of numerous daily panels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavalli Si Nasce
''Cavalli si nasce'' is a 1988 Italian comedy film written and directed by cartoonist Sergio Staino. The film won the Silver Ribbon for Best Score. Cast * Paolo Hendel: Paolo *David Riondino: Ottavio *Pietra Montecorvino: Carola *Vincent Gardenia: Neapolitan Prince *Delia Boccardo: Baroness * Giacomo Marramao: Padre Giacomo *Franco Angrisano * Beniamino Placido *Roberto Murolo * Bonvi Bonvi, pen name of Franco Bonvicini (31 March 1941 – 10 December 1995) was an Italian comic book artist, creator of the comic strips ''Sturmtruppen'' and ''Nick Carter (comics), Nick Carter''. Biography Bonvicini was born either in Parma or in ... References External links * 1988 films Italian comedy films 1988 comedy films 1988 directorial debut films 1980s Italian-language films 1980s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1980s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettino Craxi
Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( ; ; ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI member to become prime minister and the second from a Socialism, socialist party to hold the office. He led the third-longest government in the Italy, Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most powerful and prominent politicians of the First Italian Republic. Craxi was involved in investigations conducted by judges in Milan, eventually being convicted for political corruption and illicit financing of the PSI. He always rejected the charges of corruption while admitting to the illegal funding that permitted costly political activity, the PSI being less financially powerful than the two larger parties, Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democracy (DC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, the PSI was from the beginning a big tent of Italy's political left and socialism, ranging from the revolutionary socialism of Andrea Costa to the Marxist-inspired reformist socialism of Filippo Turati and the anarchism of Anna Kuliscioff. Under Turati's leadership, the party was a frequent ally of the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Radical Party at the parliamentary level, while lately entering in dialogue with the remnants of the Historical Left and the Liberal Union (Italy), Liberal Union during Giovanni Giolitti's governments to ensure representation for the labour movement and the working class. In the 1900s and 1910s, the PSI achieved significant electoral success, becoming Italy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Forattini
Giorgio Forattini (born 14 March 1931) is an Italian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator. Since 1973 his cartoons have been published on the chief Italian newspapers. Forattini comments "with a corrosive and irreverent humor, the events of Italian and international political life." His cartoons have been published in many collections, including ''Referendum reverendum'' (1974), ''Quattro anni di storia italiana'' (1977), ''Nudi alla meta'' (1985), ''Insciaquà'' (1990), ''Bossic Instinct'' (1993), ''Il libro a colori del post-comunismo'' (1998), ''Foratt pride'' (2000), ''Oltre la Fifa'' (2002), ''Il Signore degli Agnelli'' (2004), ''Regimen'' (2006), ''Vaffancolor'' (2007), ''Revoluscon'' (2008), ''Satiromantico'' (2009), ''Siamo uomini o giornalisti?'' (2010), ''Eurodeliri'' (2011), ''Fateci la carità'' (2012), ''Napoleonitano'' (2013), ''Arieccoci'' (2016), ''Abbecedario della politica'' (2017). Biography Forattini was born in Rome on 14 March 1931. His parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corriere Della Sera
(; ) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, clericalism, and Giovanni Giolitti, who was willing to compromise with those forces during his time as prime minister of Italy. Albertini's opposition to the Italian fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925. A representative of the moderate bourgeoisie, has always been generally considered centre-right-leaning, hosting in its columns liberal and democratic Catholic views. In the 21st century, its main competitors are Rome's and Turin's . Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country underwent a nationalization proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Natta
Alessandro Natta (7 January 1918 – 23 May 2001) was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988. An illuminist, Jacobin, and communist, as he used to describe himself, Natta represented the political and cultural prototype of a PCI militant and party member for over fifty years of the Italian democratic-republican history. After joining the PCI in 1945, he was deputy from 1948 to 1992, a member of the PCI's central committee starting in 1956, was part of the direction from 1963 and of the secretariat, first from 1962 to 1970 and then from 1979 to 1983, and leader of the PCI parliamentary group from 1972 to 1979; he was also the director of '' Rinascita'' from 1970 to 1972. After 1991, he did not join the PCI's successor parties. Described as a professor, intellectual, and grey, Natta was endowed with oratorical ability and cultural preparation. He was known for his moral rigour, loyalty to institutions, and cultural and political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Riondino
David Riondino (born 10 June 1952) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer. Life and career Born in Florence, Italy, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s as a member of the musical ensemble Collettivo Victor Jara.Andrea Terrinoni. "David Riondino". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1470–1. In 1979 he made his solo debut with the album ''David Riondino'', and the same year he was the opening act in a series of concerts by Fabrizio De André and Premiata Forneria Marconi, including those in Florence and Bologna, where De Andre's very famous live album '' Fabrizio De André in concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM'' was recorded. In 1980, following his second album, ''Boulevard'', with arrangements by Shel Shapiro, he focused on his live activity, where he mixed improvisation, music and cabaret. Starting from the second half of the 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Hendel
Paolo Hendel (born 2 January 1952) is an Italian actor, playwright and comedian. Life and career Born in Florence, at a young age Hendel worked in several jobs, including gamekeeper, guardian of a garage and detective.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . He debuted as a comedian in early 1980s, as the sidekick of David Riondino. Shorty later he began an intense theatrical activity as author and actor of comic monologues, characterized by a satirical and surreal style. Hendel started appearing on television in 1985. He gained popularity in 1996 with the Italia 1 variety show ''Mai dire Gol.'' There he created the successful character of "Carcarlo Pravettoni" a cynical capitalist who was candidate for mayor of Milan. Hendel also appeared in several films. He had a lead role in two films directed by Daniele Luchetti: ''It's Happening Tomorrow ''It's Happening Tomorrow'' () is a 1988 Italian comedy film directed by Daniele Luchetti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Lunari
Enzo Lunari (born 2 January 1937) is an Italian comics artist, editorial cartoonist, and illustrator. Life and career Born in Milan, the brother of the playwright Luigi, Lunari graduated in political and social science, and then worked as editorial writer at the Mursia publishing house. He made his professional debut with the comic strip '' Girighiz'', first published in the comic magazine '' Linus'' in 1965. In 1966 he created ''Fra' Salmastro'', a comic series set in the Middle Ages. In the 1970s he created ''Geodesio'', a satirical comic strip which featured Italian politicians. Among Lunari's best known works there is ''I vecchietti'', a comic strip featuring elderly people; the main character Eritreo Cazzulati was featured in the animated opening of the television comedy show ''Mai dire Gol'' and in numerous gadget items and merchandising products. Lunari collaborated as editorial cartoonist, comics artist, and illustrator with a variety of publications, notably ''Corriere de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angese
Sergio Angeletti (4 February 1947 – 11 February 2008), professionally known as Angese, was an Italian editorial cartoonist, satirist, and caricaturist. Life and career Born in Rome, Angese graduated in accounting and starting from 1973 he collaborated with various publications including the newspapers ''Momento Sera'' and ''La Voce Repubblicana'' and the magazines '' Rinascita'' and ''Aut''. In 1975, he became editorial cartoonist of the newspaper ''Paese Sera'', replacing Giorgio Forattini. He was a regular collaborator of the satirical magazine '' Il Male'', and his collaborations also included ''Tango'', ''Cuore'', ''L'Espresso'', '' linus'' and ''Il Foglio ("The Paper"), or more formally ("The daily Paper"), is an Italian daily newspaper with nationwide circulation. It was founded in 1996 by Giuliano Ferrara, an Italian journalist, television host, and politician. Since 2015, it has been edited ...''. He also served as editor of the short-lived newspaper ''L'Eco del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
