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

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, from Orlando, a lawyer, and Francesca Bettio. For some years he studied law in

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, but later abandoned his studies to entirely focusing into drawing and painting as an autodidact. In late 1900s he started a collaboration as an illustrator with the satirical weekly magazine ''

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'', then he moved to Rome where he also began to collaborate with the magazine ''La tribuna illustrata''. At the outbreak of the

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, despite his

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, he volunteered, was wounded and taken prisoner in

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but even performed acts of heroism that earned him two decorations. In 1921, he founded with Antonio Beltramelli the monthly children magazine ''Giro Giro Tondo'', published by

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. In January 1928, in the pages of ''

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'', 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.B.P. Boschesi, ''Manuale dei fumetti'', Mondadori, 1976, pp. 32-33. 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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