Candido (magazine)

Candido was an Italian language satirical magazine published in Milan, Italy, between 1945 and 1961.

Candido
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherRizzoli
Year founded1945
Final issue1961
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian

History and profile
Giovannino Guareschi reading Candido

Candido was started in 1945 as a successor of another satirical magazine Bertoldo.[1][2][3] The magazine was published on a weekly basis.[4] It was cofounded by Giovannino Guareschi, Giaci Mondaini and Giovanni Mosca on the request of the Italian publisher Angelo Rizzoli.[5][6] Its headquarters was in Milan.[1][7] Giovannino Guareschi also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine and resigned from the post in 1957.[8] However, he continued to contribute to the weekly.[4] The circulation of Candido reached 225,000 copies.[3]

The magazine had a monarchist and moderately conservative stance.[3][4] It frequently published cartoons featuring the major political figures of the period, including Christian democrat Alcide De Gasperi and communist Palmiro Togliatti.[9] Candido ceased publication in 1961.[7]

See also

References
  1. Roy P. Domenico; Mark Y. Hanley, eds. (2006). Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-313-32362-1.
  2. "Life Magazine". Life: 120. 10 November 1952. ISSN 0024-3019.
  3. Dario Pasquini (2020). "Longing for Purity: Fascism and Nazism in the Italian and German Satirical Press (1943/1945–1963)". European History Quarterly. 50 (3): 468. doi:10.1177/0265691420932251.
  4. "My father Giovannino". Rina Brundu. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. "Giovannino Guareschi". RCS Libri (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. Alan R. Perry (Winter 2009). ""C'era una volta la prigionia": Guareschi's Resistance in the "Favola di Natale"". Italica. 86 (4): 623–650. JSTOR 20750655. – via Jstor (subscription required)
  7. "Don Camillo". Detecs. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  8. Giovannino Guareschi (2014). "Gri irregolari: An unorthodox couple". In Maria Cristina Cignatta (ed.). Face to Face/Faccia a Faccia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-4438-5918-9.
  9. Marzia Marsili (1998). "De Gasperi and Togliatti: political leadership and personality cults in post-war Italy". Modern Italy. 3 (2): 249–261. doi:10.1080/13532949808454807.
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