Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly]. New York: E.M. Grella, 1929-1930.

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Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly]. New York: E.M. Grella, 1929-1930.

Description

Two issues of the heavily-illustrated satirical weekly magazine, the covers each displaying a political caricature in addition to the magazine’s staple, a dancing smiling faun, all by Italian cartoonist Giovanni Viafora.

Of course, this satirical magazine is not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Giovannitti and Venanzi issued in 1915.

Little information exists about E. M. Grella (not even his first name) - neither Flamma (in Italiani di America, q.v., issued in the same decade) nor Schiavo (in his later Italian American Who's Who) list him, though he does appear in several articles and journals of the early 20th century. A 1918 issue of The Fourth Estate lists him as owning three newspapers, one of which was Il Giornale Italiano [The Italian Journal]. This last fact should have earned him a place in Flamma or Schiavo.

The collection includes:

Vita, Anno 1, No. 7 - 1 Decembre [December] 1929
Vita, Anno 2, No. 2 - 12 Gennaio [January] 1930

Creator

E.M. Grella

Publisher

E.M. Grella

Date

1929-1930

Language

Italian

Citation

E.M. Grella, “Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly]. New York: E.M. Grella, 1929-1930.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/424.

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