Abstract

Mario Pannunzio is today remembered first of all as director of the weekly «Il Mondo». Before founding and directing this magazine, and dedicating himself above all to politics, Pannunzio had cultivated interests of various kinds, dedicating himself to artistic experiences, directing literary magazines and dealing with cinema. In the cinematographic field he has worked as a critic (in particular for «Omnibus») and as a screenwriter (for some films by Mario Camerini and Duilio Coletti). This article, starting from some documents found in the Mario Pannunzio Archive preserved in the Historical Archives of the Chamber of Deputies, hypothesizes that some articles on the making of films in the Cinecittà studios published by the Milanese newspaper «L’Ambrosiano» during 1938 and signed with the pseudonym Diogene can also be attributed to Pannunzio. Although there is no definitive proof that certifies it with certainty, the examination of the documents in the Archive and the similarities that emerge from the comparison between Diogenes’ articles and the reviews that Pannunzio published in the same period in «Omnibus» make the attribution highly probable.