After working in various newspapers, he was among the founders of the satirical magazines, the most famous in Italy in the years of the Second World War . In 1936 he started the weekly Il Bertoldo and in 1945, the Candido. His articles and caricatures also published on the Courier of Information and Time, arise from a delicate sense of humor, sometimes surreal, sometimes sentimental and moralizing that characterizes his works of fiction. He also published a History of Italy in 200 cartoons (1975) and a History of the World in 200 cartoons (1978). He translated some Latin authors: Horace whose Satire, The Art of Poetry, The Epistles and Luciano, his Dialogues.