Il Becco Giallo

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

Il Becco Giallo
CategoriesSatirical magazine
First issue1924
Final issue1926
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

History and profile

Il Becco Giallo was founded by Alberto Giannini in 1924.[2] 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.

Luigi Pirandello, for his devotion to Benito Mussolini, was one of Becco Giallo's satirical targets, and used to be called P.Randello (randello in Italian means club).[3] In 1926 the fascist regime forced Giannini to close it and emigrate to France.[2][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][5]

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See also

Notes
  1. Un novecento da ridere Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, by Alessandro Frigerio
  2. Salvatore Attardo (18 March 2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 472. ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  3. Chiesa, Adolfo (1990) La satira politica in Italia: con un'intervista a Tullio Pericoli p.38
  4. BeccoGiallo: fumetti impegnati e resistenza editoriale in Fanzin-Arte
  5. Mario Monicelli in De Franceschi, Leonardo (2001) Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli, p.28 excerpt

Further reading
  • Oreste Del Buono, Lietta Tornabuoni (editors) (1972) Il becco giallo, Feltrinelli,
  • Il becco giallo. La satira di sinistra, a cura di Walter Marossi, Milano, M&B Publishing, 1999
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