A large box (really large) of Corriere dei Piccoli has held me up; reading again. Most are from the 70s and 80s but, wonderfully, some are from the 40s. The later ones smell of Chadlands attic the earlier of the stanzone vecchio, now so gloriously transformed for pool and snooker playing and watching Buffy from comfy cream sofas.
Rodari's true heir is Altan. The graphics in the later Corrieres are surprisingly quite as good as in the earlier ones, not least because of Pimpa and her creator. Both Altan and Rodari never descend into the saccharine or the fey; what they say has as much interpretive worth as the reader can offer.
Should some of the very best pages be framed and put on the walls (that Rodari exhibition has got to me clearly) or should the copies be preserved entire? A Library subscriber has been collecting Cipputi cartoons form Espresso for years and they could be framed too.
I think Cipputi is probably Pimpa's uncle.
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they actually might be better preserved through decoration - and in some cases the aesthetic and narrative value of the pimpas must be far greater than the significance of the whole corriere.
so ones to be framed would need to be carefully chosen; what a lovely task, can I help you do it?
Francesco Tullio Altan is indeed Rodari's true heir. And since 1992 he illustrated all of Rodari's books for Einaudi. See http://www.ilpalo.com/fumetti/altan/autore.html, and
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Tullio_Altan
If you like Pimpa, go to her site:
http://www.pimpa.it/
Insofar as puppies can have human uncles, Pimpa has Armando. I always thought this was a small tribute to Armando Cossutta, the communist leader presumably dear to metal worker Cipputi. So there is indeed a connection between Pimpa and Cipputi, through their common ancestor Francesco Tullio.
Pispolo, Pimpa is not a puppy. She is.
I share Cipputi's admiration for Cossutta, although I am not now and have never been, a communist (nor will anyone be one ever again)
I quite understand that you do not approve of Cossutta and that my view of him has chafed over the years. I can only say now that, in terms of his politics, you are, and have always been, right. But he is a moral and proper man.
Lenna, We could find an expanse of polished floor and set out the Pimpa editions and choose and choose. Thank you.
can I play Pimpa choosing too?
but giules, you ARE Pimpa!
Note that pimpa = bimba pronounced with a German accent. It also suggests "pimpante", meaning glowing and bouncing.
And the cartoon is positively Bergsonian in animating all matter (matière vivante, precisely).
Giules, You're in.
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