Filiberto Scarpelli

Filiberto Scarpelli (29 June 1870 –20 August 1933) was an Italian cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist.

[1] After collaborating with L'Asino, working as a journalist for the newspaper Corriere d’Italia and illustrating several textbooks, in 1900 he co-founded the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee, also serving as its editor between 1925 and 1928.

[1][2] In 1916 he and Enrico Sacchetti held an exhibition titled Italian artists and the war at the Leicester Galleries in London.

[1] He also illustrated postcards, sheet music covers, film posters, and was a children book author and a novelist.

[1][4] He was the father of the screenwriter Furio, the film director Manlio and the cinematographer Marco Scarpelli.