Highlights for Warspots: The Second World War from the Italian point of view

Highlights for Warspots: The Second World War from the Italian point of view

10 June '21

For 90 years of its existence (1899-1989), weekly magazine “La Domenica del Corriere” — “Sunday Courier”), published in Milan as a supplement to the newspaper “Corriere della Sera” (“Evening Courier”), became a real window on the world for the Italian citizen. At a time when there was no Internet or television, and the possibilities of full-color printing were limited, artists had to pursue realism in displaying the most high-profile events of that time. The era of illustrations in the style of “Charlie Hebdo” will come much later, when there are no more problems with the visual components of the news.

It is the bright full-color covers and supplements that “La Domenica del Corriere” is famous for to this day, being a popular collectible. These pictures can be used to study the history of the 20th century, including the military one. Over the years of World War II, several hundred issues of the weekly magazine were published, and below we present a selection of drawings by artists Walter Molino, Alvaro Mairani, Achille Beltrame and Vittorio Pisani. It is up to the reader to judge the extent to which the display of events corresponds to reality.