Piero Mancini Biography
Piero Mancini (1927-1979) was born in Adria, Rovigo and during his childhood he moved to Milan, where he completed his studies and attended the nude school at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Returning to Padua, he dedicated himself to advertising graphics and illustration. At the beginning of the 1950s he began to collaborate with Sant'Antonio ei fanciulli (which in 1963 would become Messenger of the Boys), also preparing a comic detective story-quiz (the only one for which he also wrote the texts) which was published for a few years. number, before an abrupt interruption. He resumed his discussion on comics only around 1958, when he prepared the pencils of some stories. Having settled in Padua, he remained in the Venetian city, where he taught figure drawing at the Art School. His best works, in this period, were the illustrations for the literary reductions: 'Don Quixote', 'Perry of the Stars' (by Oscar Wilde), stories from English, French and Spanish literature. In 1965 he illustrated the 'Divine Comedy' for Editrice La Scuola of Brescia. Between 1972 and 1975, based on texts by Claudio Nizzi, he created one of his most popular works: the 17 comic episodes of Mino and Lia for Il Messaggero deiRagazzi. In 1977 he worked on a comic book adaptation of the 'Diary of Anne Frank' for the Children's Messenger and for Sgt. Kirk.
