Candido (magazine)
{{Short description|Weekly satirical magazine in Italy (1945–1961)}}
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Candido was a satirical magazine published in Milan, Italy, between 1945 and 1961. It was cofounded and edited by Giovannino Guareschi.
History and profile
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Candido was started in 1945 as a successor of another satirical magazine Bertoldo.{{cite book|editor1=Roy P. Domenico|editor2=Mark Y. Hanley|title=Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics|location=Westport, CT; London|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8ZixRcQfV8C&pg=PA260|year=2006|isbn=978-0-313-32362-1|page=260}}{{cite magazine
|page=120|title=Guareschi|magazine=Life|date=10 November 1952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA120
|issn=0024-3019}}{{cite journal|author=Dario Pasquini|title=Longing for Purity: Fascism and Nazism in the Italian and German Satirical Press (1943/1945–1963)|journal=European History Quarterly|year=2020|volume=50|issue=3|page=468|doi=10.1177/0265691420932251
|s2cid=221015170}} It was cofounded by Giovannino Guareschi, Giaci Mondaini and Giovanni Mosca on the request of the Italian publisher Angelo Rizzoli.{{cite web|title=Giovannino Guareschi|url=http://www.rcslibri.it/autori/giovannino-guareschi/?refresh_ce-cp|work=RCS Libri|access-date=26 July 2015|language=it}}{{cite journal|author=Alan R. Perry|title="C'era una volta la prigionia": Guareschi's Resistance in the "Favola di Natale"|journal=Italica|date=Winter 2009|volume=86|issue=4|pages=623–650|jstor=20750655}} {{Subscription}} The magazine was published on a weekly basis,{{cite news|title=My father Giovannino|work=Rina Brundu
|url=http://rinabrundu.com/2013/12/08/my-father-giovannino-an-exclusive-interview-with-mr-alberto-guareschi-and-on-journalism-as-a-literary-means-to-serve-the-community-and-to-assert-ideas/|access-date=26 July 2015|date=8 December 2013}} and its headquarters was in Milan. Giovannino Guareschi also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine and resigned from the post in 1957.{{cite book|editor=Maria Cristina Cignatta|title=Face to Face/Faccia a Faccia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y5cxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137
|year=2014|page=137|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-5918-9|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|author=Giovannino Guareschi
|chapter=Gri irregolari: An unorthodox couple}} However, he continued to contribute to the weekly. In the period 1952–1953 Candido sold 180,000–200,000 copies.{{cite journal|author=Mitchell V. Charnley|title=The Rise of the Weekly Magazine in Italy|page=477
|journal=Journalism Quarterly|date=September 1953|volume=30|issue=4|doi=10.1177/107769905303000405|s2cid=191530801}} Later its circulation reached 225,000 copies.
The magazine had a monarchist and moderately conservative stance. For the magazine editors Catholics and communists were in continuous and inflexible opposition.{{cite journal|author=Daniela Saresella|title=The Dialogue between Catholics and Communists in Italy during the 1960s|journal=Journal of the History of Ideas|date=July 2014|volume=75|issue=3|page=495|jstor=43289678 |doi=10.1353/jhi.2014.0021}} It frequently published cartoons featuring the major political figures of the period, including Christian democrat Alcide De Gasperi and communist Palmiro Togliatti.{{cite journal|author=Marzia Marsili|title=De Gasperi and Togliatti: political leadership and personality cults in post-war Italy|journal=Modern Italy|year=1998|volume=3|issue=2|pages=249–261|s2cid=143996743
|doi=10.1080/13532949808454807}} Candido ceased publication in 1961.{{cite web|title=Don Camillo|access-date=26 July 2015
|url=http://www.detecs.org/camillo.html|work=Detecs}}
See also
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