L'Asino (English: "The Donkey") was an Italian magazine of political satire founded in Rome in 1892, by Guido Podrecca (1865–1923) and Gabriele Galantara (1867–1937), a former mathematics student, designer and cartoonist, both with a socialist background.

The magazine's title was from a saying of Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi that said that "the donkey is like the people: useful, patient and stubborn" (Italian: come il popolo è l'asino: utile, paziente e bastonato), which became the subtitle and the motto of the editors.

[5][6] L'Asino was inspired by the great tradition of European political satire from France (La Caricature, Le Charivari, Le Rire and in particular L'Assiette au Beurre to which Galatanra contributed his cartoons) and especially from Germany, with the socialist fortnightly Der Wahre Jacob, to which Podrecca and Galantara drew direct inspiration: double colour covers, texts enriched with drawings and engravings, satire articles alternating with rigorous social criticism.

[10] Galantara contributed to the interventionist cause and war propaganda with his famous caricatures of 'Guglielmone' (Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany) and 'Cecco Beppe' (Franz Joseph I of Austria) and by preaching hostility to 'Teutonic barbarism'.

In the November 1919 Italian general election, Podrecca was among the candidates on the list presented by the Fascists in Milan, which was headed by Mussolini and included, among others, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Arturo Toscanini.

printing house, began with a public act of penitence and a ruthless self-criticism that saved nothing of the choices made over the last twenty years, from 'democratic deceptions' to 'patriotic lies' to 'anticlerical pornography', promising a revitalising return to the rebellious spirit of the origins.

[7] After the closure of L'Asino, Galantara continued to create cartoons for the antifascist satirical newspaper Il Becco Giallo, but on 24 December 1926 he was arrested and taken to Rome's Regina Coeli prison and sentenced to five years of confinement.