Candido (magazine)

*Candido*
Categories	Satirical magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	Rizzoli
Founded	1945
Final issue	1961
Country	Italy
Based in	Milan
Language	Italian

Candido was a satirical magazine published in Milan, Italy, between 1945 and 1961. It was cofounded and edited by Giovannino Guareschi.

History and profile

Candido was started in 1945 as a successor of another satirical magazine Bertoldo.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was cofounded by Giovannino Guareschi, Giaci Mondaini and Giovanni Mosca on the request of the Italian publisher Angelo Rizzoli.^[4]^[5] The magazine was published on a weekly basis,^[6] and 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.^[6] In the period 1952–1953 Candido sold 180,000–200,000 copies.^[9] Later its circulation reached 225,000 copies.^[3]

The magazine had a monarchist and moderately conservative stance.^[3]^[6] For the magazine editors Catholics and communists were in continuous and inflexible opposition.^[10] It frequently published cartoons featuring the major political figures of the period, including Christian democrat Alcide De Gasperi and communist Palmiro Togliatti.^[11] Candido ceased publication in 1961.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "Guareschi". Life. 10 November 1952. p. 120. ISSN 0024-3019.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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. S2CID 221015170.
^ "Giovannino Guareschi". RCS Libri (in Italian). Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^ 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)
^ ^a ^b ^c "My father Giovannino". Rina Brundu. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Don Camillo". Detecs. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^ 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.
^ Mitchell V. Charnley (September 1953). "The Rise of the Weekly Magazine in Italy". Journalism Quarterly. 30 (4): 477. doi:10.1177/107769905303000405. S2CID 191530801.
^ Daniela Saresella (July 2014). "The Dialogue between Catholics and Communists in Italy during the 1960s". Journal of the History of Ideas. 75 (3): 495. doi:10.1353/jhi.2014.0021. JSTOR 43289678.
^ 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. S2CID 143996743.