Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly]. New York: E.M. Grella, 1929-1930.
Title
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 (aka "Gianni") Viafora, whose "Fifty Caricatures of Celebrated Lyrical Artists," a series of colored postal cards featured the "personal peculiarities" of the most prominent lyrical artists of the world," according to the full page ad for this work in Francesco Tocci's 1908 "Italian Books" catalogue, listing 50 of them, including Oscar Hammerstein, Theodore Chaliapin, Enrico Caruso and "Gustavo" Mahler.
Of course, this satirical magazine is not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Arturo Giovannitti and Flavio Venanzi issued a decade and a half before, in 1915.
Little information exists about E. M. Grella (not even what his first and middle names are) - 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
Of course, this satirical magazine is not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Arturo Giovannitti and Flavio Venanzi issued a decade and a half before, in 1915.
Little information exists about E. M. Grella (not even what his first and middle names are) - 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
Collection
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 January 18, 2026, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/424.
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