Mino Milani (3 February 1928 – 10 February 2022) was an Italian writer, cartoonist, journalist and historian. During his career he also used several pseudonyms, including Stelio Martelli, Eugenio Ventura, Piero Selva, Mungo Graham Alcesti and T. Maggio.
Life and career
Born in
Pavia
Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the cap ...
, Milani debuted as a writer in 1952 and wrote over two hundred books, spanning children's and adult novels, collections of short stories, biographies and historical books.
Among his best known works, the giallo-crime novel cycle featuring police commissioner Melchiorre Ferrari, the series of western novels ''Tommy River'', and ''Fantasma d'amore'', a novel adapted into
a film with the same name by
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''.
Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an o ...
, starring
Marcello Mastroianni and
Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider (; born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central chara ...
.
Milani was also well known as a comic writer, mainly active for ''
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 ...
'' and ''Corriere dei Ragazzi'', whose collaborations include
Hugo Pratt
Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as ''Corto Maltese''. He was ind ...
,
Milo Manara
Maurilio Manara (; born 12 September 1945), known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist.
Career
After architecture and painting studies, he made his comics debut in 1969 drawing for ''Genius'', a Fumetti neri ...
,
Sergio Toppi,
Dino Battaglia
Dino Battaglia (1 August 1923 – 4 October 1983) was an Italian comic artist, noted for a distinctive and expressive style, best known for his visual adaptations of classic novels.
In 1946 Dino Battaglia became part of the so-called Group of Ven ...
, ,
Arturo del Castillo
Arturo Pérez Del Castillo (1925–1992) was a comic book artist.
Del Castillo was born in Concepcion, Chile, but moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948. In the 1950s he worked for Aventuras, Intervalo, El Tony and Hora Cero, where he created R ...
,
Mario Uggeri,
Grazia Nidasio,
Attilio Micheluzzi.
As a journalist, Milano worked for important publications such as ''
Corriere della Sera'' and ''
La Domenica del Corriere
''La Domenica del Corriere'' was an Italian weekly newspaper which ran from 1899 to 1989. It came out every Sunday free with ''Corriere della Sera
The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper publishe ...
'', and was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper ''
La Provincia Pavese
''La Provincia Pavese'' is an Italian language regional daily newspaper and is the main paper of the province of Pavia.
History and profile
''La Provincia Pavese'' is part of the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A., fo ...
''.
He died in Pavia on 10 February 2022, at the age of 94.
References
External links
Mino Milaniat
Goodreads
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Mino Milaniat
Open Library
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1928 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Italian journalists
21st-century Italian journalists
Italian comics writers
People from Pavia