Il Becco Giallo
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| Categories | Satirical magazine |
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| First issue | 1924 |
| Final issue | 1926 |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Il Becco Giallo (meaning Yellow Beak in English) was an antifascist satirical magazine in the 1920s in Italy. The magazine existed between 1924 and 1926.
Il Becco Giallo was founded by Alberto Giannini in 1924. The editorial column of the first issue sided clearly against fascism:
[...] 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.
Luigi Pirandello, for his devotion to Benito Mussolini, was one of Becco Giallo satirical target, and used to be called P.Randello (randello in Italian means club). In 1926 the fascist regime forced Giannini to close it and emigrate to France.
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.
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