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Il Becco Giallo
Editor-in-chiefAlberto Cianca
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderAlberto Giannini
First issue13 January 1924
Final issue1926
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian

Il Becco Giallo (Italian: 'Yellow Beak') was an antifascist satirical magazine in the 1920s in Italy.[1] The magazine existed between 1924 and 1926.

History

Il Becco Giallo was founded by Alberto Giannini in 1924,[2] and the first issue appeared on 13 January that year.[3] The editorial column of the first issue sided clearly against fascism:[1]

[...] appoggiamo [...] con tutte le nostre energie l’opposizione la quale, al regime fascista di dittatoriale violenza che ha invertito tutti i valori morali e col terrorismo ha asservito l'Italia ad una banda di predoni, resiste eroicamente sfidando ogni giorno le più brutali aggressioni e lotta per la libertà soppressa, per la millenaria giustizia italiana conculcata, per la riconquista delle guarentigie costituzionali, per ridare prestigio all’Italia nel mondo.

[...] we support [...] with all our energy the opposition, which heroically resists the fascist regime of dictatorial violence that has inverted all moral values and through terrorism enslaved Italy to a band of raiders, and defies every day the most brutal aggression and struggle for suppressed freedom for the trampled thousand-year old Italian justice, for the restoration of constitutional guarantees, to restore prestige to Italy in the world.

Il Becco Giallo was based in Rome.[3] The editor-in-chief of the magazine which was published on a weekly basis was Alberto Cianca.[4] One of the contributors was Stefano Siglienti.[5] Luigi Pirandello, for his devotion to Benito Mussolini, was one of Il Becco Giallo's satirical targets, and used to be called P.Randello (randello in Italian means 'club (weapon)').[6] In 1926 the fascist regime forced Giannini to close it and emigrate to France.[2][7] Editor-in-chief Alberto Cianca also fled to Paris where he managed to continue to publish Il Becco Giallo.[4]

In the same period, two magazines emerged in Italy that were characterized for developing an innovative surreal humour, the Bertoldo and the Marc'Aurelio; the authors of these magazines were reactionaries that avoided political satire to comply with the regime.[1][8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Un novecento da ridere Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, by Alessandro Frigerio
  2. ^ a b Salvatore Attardo (2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 472. ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5.
  3. ^ a b Alessandra Aquilanti (2015). Humor in Fascist Italy (PhD thesis). Stanford University. p. 95. ISBN 9798662565203. ProQuest 2501173396.
  4. ^ a b "Alberto Cianca" (in Italian). ANPI. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  5. ^ Sandro Gerbi (1994). "Un banchiere nella Resistenza romana: Stefano Siglienti, 1943-44". Belfagor. 49 (4): 433–453. JSTOR 26147184.
  6. ^ Chiesa, Adolfo (1990) La satira politica in Italia: con un'intervista a Tullio Pericoli p.38
  7. ^ BeccoGiallo: fumetti impegnati e resistenza editoriale in Fanzin-Arte
  8. ^ Mario Monicelli in De Franceschi, Leonardo (2001) Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli, p.28 excerpt

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