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Il Ragno

The exhibition presents 88 original drawings published in the satirical magazine “Il Ragno” between 1918 and 1925 and 21 original drawings which were published in “La Rivista di Lugano” under the rubric “Il Ragno” between 1939 and 1943. Beyond the high artistic quality and great sagacity of these works, we were struck by the historical and social importance that a magazine like "Il Ragno" had in a period of great international changes.

To better contextualize these drawings in their historical period, we carried out a search in the archives of "Il Ragno" and "La Rivista di Lugano", which allowed us to find and photograph the corresponding publications with the related texts, of almost all the original drawings. “Il Ragno” dealt with both local customs and Ticino politics, but also with international politics, so much so that it also ran into federal censorship which, pushed by the German government, severely hit Elvezio Crivelli, guilty of having ironically compared the German emperor to Nerone, Attila and Tamerlano in a poem, which appeared in “Il Ragno” in 1915.

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