''Italino'' was an Italian comic strip series created by

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. ''Italino'' was published by the children magazine ''

Il Corriere dei Piccoli The ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' (Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones"), later nicknamed ''Corrierino'' ("Little Courier"), was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a re ...

'' from 1915, on the eve of the entry of Italy in World War, to 1919. It depicts the patriotic and humorous stories of Italino, an interventionist young

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farmer who enjoys doing spites to his

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rival Kartoffel Otto.B.P. Boschesi, ''Manuale dei fumetti'', Mondadori, 1976, pp.27-28.

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