Category
page 1Satirical magazines published in Italy
L'Asino
'''''L'Asino''''' (English: "The Donkey") was an Italian magazine of political satire founded in Rome in 1892, by Guido Podrecca (1865–1923) and Gabriele Galantara (1867–1937), a former mathematics student, designer and cartoonist, both with a socialist background. The two took the pseudonyms "Goliardo" (Podrecca) and "Ratalanga" (Galantara), and with these nicknames signed the outputs of the weekly. The magazine's title was from a saying of Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi that said that "the donkey is like the people: useful, patient and stubborn" (Italian: ''come il popolo è l'asino: utile, paz
Il Male
Italian magazine
Il Becco Giallo
defunct anti-Fascist satirical magazine in Italy (1924–1926)
Bertoldo
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. 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.
Marc'Aurelio
'''''Marc'Aurelio''''' was an Italian satirical magazine, published between 1931 and 1958, and briefly resurrected in 1973.