Mino Milani

Mino Milani
Milani in 2018
Born3 February 1928 (1928-02-03)
Pavia, Italy
Died10 February 2022 (2022-02-11) (aged 94)
Pavia, Italy
NationalityItalian
Other names
  • Stelio Martelli
  • Eugenio Ventura
  • Piero Selva
  • Mungo Graham Alcesti
  • T. Maggio
Occupation(s)Writer, cartoonist and historian
Employer(s)La Provincia Pavese (editor-in-chief)
Corriere della Sera
La Domenica del Corriere
Notable workMelchiorre Ferrari novels
Tommy River
Fantasma d'amore
Corriere dei Piccoli
Corriere dei Ragazzi
AwardsYellow Kid Award, 1971[1]

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, 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.[2] Among his best known works are 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, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Romy Schneider.[2][3][4] Milani was also well known as a comic writer, mainly active for Corriere dei Piccoli and Corriere dei Ragazzi, whose collaborations include Hugo Pratt, Milo Manara, Sergio Toppi, Dino Battaglia, Aldo Di Gennaro [it], Arturo del Castillo, Mario Uggeri, Grazia Nidasio, and Attilio Micheluzzi.[4][5]

As a journalist, Milano worked for important publications such as Corriere della Sera and La Domenica del Corriere, and was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper La Provincia Pavese.[3][5] He died in Pavia on 10 February 2022, at the age of 94.[5]

References

  1. ^ "7° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS LUCCA, 1971". immaginecentrostrudi.org (in Italian).
  2. ^ a b Priarone, Stefano (11 February 2022). "È morto Mino Milani, il più grande storyteller italiano". La Stampa (in Italian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Briganti, Annarita (10 February 2022). "Pavia, addio a Mino Milani, romanziere e fumettista". La Repubblica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b Crovi, Luca (11 February 2022). "Mino Milani, l'ultimo Corsaro nero". Il Giornale (in Italian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Redazione (10 February 2022). "È morto Mino Milani, grande firma del Corriere dei Piccoli". Fumettologica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
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