Giacinto Mondaini
Giacinto "Giaci" Mondaini (6 July 1903 – 11 August 1979) was an Italian painter, humorist, cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter.
Giacinto Mondaini
- Born
- 1903.
- Died
- 1979.
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- writer, painter, humorist, draftsperson, caricaturist and illustrator.
- Known for
- I'll Give a Million.
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Giacinto "Giaci" Mondaini (6 July 1903 – 11 August 1979) was an Italian painter, humorist, cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter.
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Born in Milan in 1903, Giaci Mondaini began his career in the 1930s with his friend, the writer Giovannino Guareschi, at the humor magazine Bertoldo, whose editorial staff repeatedly clashed with the Fascist regime. At the same time, he contributed graphic designs to stamps, billboards, magazines, and comic strips. His daughter Sandra was often his model since she was a baby. He was married to Giuseppina "Joséphine" Lombardini (1906–1997), an Argentine woman from whom he separated immediately after the Second World War, leaving the family. In 1935, he wrote with Cesare Zavattini the subject for the film I Will Give a Million. After the 1950s, he produced paintings and humorous drawings. Mondaini died, probably of cardiac arrest, in a camping in Kiens, South Tyrol, on 11 August 1979.
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1903
Giacinto Mondaini was born in 1903.
1979
Giacinto Mondaini died at Kiens.
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- 1.Sartori, Adalberto. Mondaini Giacinto - Giaci. Dizionario d'Arte Sartori.
- 2.Scardia, Giampaolo. La testa vuota della Mondaini. Altri Mondi. 27 September 2010.
- 3.Buffa, Fabio. Giacinto Mondaini, maestro milanese dell’arte satirica e surrealistica. Milano Città Stato. 7 June 2025.
- 4.Grilli, Laura. Chi erano i genitori di Sandra Mondaini: 'Ho vissuto un'infanzia difficile'. Metropolitan Magazine. 12 August 2025.
- 5.Fortichiari, Valentina. Cesare Zavattini écrivain de cinéma. La respiration des images à naître. Recherches & travaux. 29. 27–31. 1985.
- 6.Forgacs, David. Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Indiana University Press. January 2008. 978-0253219480.
- 7.Trovato morto in un campeggio il padre di Sandra Mondaini. Corriere della Sera. 12 August 1979.
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