Il Becco Giallo (English: "The Yellow Beak") was an antifascist satirical magazine in the 1920s in Italy.Un novecento da ridere , by Alessandro Frigerio The magazine existed between 1924 and 1926.
History Il Becco Giallo was founded by Alberto Giannini in 1924, and the first issue appeared on 13 January that year. The editorial column of the first issue sided clearly against fascism:
Il Becco Giallo was based in Rome. The editor-in-chief of the magazine which was published on a weekly basis was Alberto Cianca. Contributors included Gabriele Galantara, founder and editor of L'Asino, Galantara, Gabriele, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 51 (1998) and Stefano Siglienti. 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)').Chiesa, Adolfo (1990) La satira politica in Italia: con un'intervista a Tullio Pericoli p.38 In 1926 the fascist regime forced Giannini to close it and emigrate to France.BeccoGiallo: fumetti impegnati e resistenza editoriale in Fanzin-Arte Editor-in-chief Alberto Cianca also fled to Paris where he managed to continue to publish Il Becco Giallo.
On 1 August 1927 the new clandestine series of the magazine appeared in Paris, with co-editor Alberto Cianca, thanks to financial subsidies collected in Concentrazione Antifascista Italiana (Italian Anti-Fascist Concentration) circles through the intervention of Filippo Turati and the Italo-Argentine industrialist Torquato Di Tella,Bruno Tobia (ed.), Il carteggio tra Filippo Turati e Torquato Di Tella. (1928-1931), Storia contemporanea: rivista bimestrale di studi storici, Bologna, a. XVIII, n.4 (agosto 1992), pp. 627-680. and later also with the contribution of the Giustizia e Libertà movement.Santi Fedele, La massoneria italiana nell'esilio e nella clandestinità: 1927-1939, Milano, F. Angeli, 2005, p. 135. The publications of the clandestine journal continued until August 1931 (77 issues in all), when the journal closed due to disagreements that arose between Carlo Rosselli, who guaranteed funding, and Giannini, who edited the journal.
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.Mario Monicelli in De Franceschi, Leonardo (2001) Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli, p.28 excerpt
See also
List of magazines in Italy
References
Further reading Oreste Del Buono, Lietta Tornabuoni (eds.) (1972) Il becco giallo, Feltrinelli. Il becco giallo. La satira di sinistra, a cura di Walter Marossi, Milano, M&B Publishing, 1999.