Marino Marioli (baldovino) Biography
Marino Marioli (1910 - 1975) He attended the Liceo Arnaldo and the University of Padua where he graduated in literature. In the meantime he was an animator of the Brescia fun scene and together with Enrico Dalla Vecchia he wrote the student magazine "Meno cinque, meno quattro, meno tre". He taught at the Veronica Gambara Teachers' Institute, at the Scientific High School (1940-1941), at the ITIS "Benedetto Castelli". While still a young student, he cultivated a passion for theatre, under the guidance of Anton Giulio Bragaglia, who made him the protagonist of humorous performances. During the Second World War he was, from 1941 to 1945 in Hungary, director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Kassa and was interned for a year for not having joined the RSI. Upon his return to Italy he dedicated himself in addition to teaching, with ever greater enthusiasm for the theatre, staging numerous shows. Memorable among all the performances was the "Adelchi" performed by Vittorio Gassman at the Roman Forum. He also had a strong attraction for journalism, in which he was present under various pseudonyms. In particular he animated the magazine «Arbiter». Cultural animator by choice, he created the OM Recreational Center in via S. Carlo, where Ungaretti, Piovene and others passed, and where high-level recitations were held. He also dedicated himself to painting, revealing himself, in a personal exhibition in March 1968 at the Associazione Artisti Bresciani, as an attentive connoisseur of innovative, plastic currents, establishing himself as a plastic painter and singular colourist, with a confident style under the pseudonym "Baldovino".
