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Luigi Bertelli
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Luigi Bertelli (19 March 1860 - 27 November 1920), best known as Vamba, was an Italian writer, illustrator and journalist.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Luigi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Florence
- Place of death
- Florence
- Occupation
- caricaturist
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Image
- Vamba1.jpg
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- Luigi Bertelli
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- Cimitero delle Porte Sante
- date of birth
- 1860-03-19
- date of death
- 1920-11-27
- pseudonym
- Vamba
- birth name
- Luigi Bertelli
- Commons Creator page
- Luigi Bertelli
- writing language
- Italian
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Luigi Bertelli (19 March 1860 - 27 November 1920), best known as Vamba, was an Italian writer, illustrator and journalist.
== Biography == Born in Florence, having completed his studies Bertelli became a railway employer, working first in Rimini and later in Foggia. He later started collaborating with the Roman newspaper Capitan Fracassa and in 1884 he was officially employed as a journalist and caricaturist. He soon adopted the pseudonym "Vamba", named after the clown of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. After collaborating with several newspapers, in 1890 he founded and directed ''L'O di Giotto, a newspaper close to the radical political positions of Felice Cavallotti, and in 1901 he co-founded the regional newspaper Il Bruscolo.
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