Giuseppe Marotta

Giuseppe Marotta (5 April 1902 – 10 October 1963) was an Italian writer, screenwriter, film critic, lyricist and playwright.

Life and career Born in Naples, Italy, the son of a lawyer and a seamstress, Marotta suffered from bone tuberculosis in his childhood and adolescence. Starting from the early 1920s, he collaborated with newspapers and magazines with short stories and poetry; in 1924, he moved to Milan, where he was employed first at Mondadori as a proofreader and archivist and later at Rizzoli as editor. He then collaborated with the satirical magazines Bertoldo and Guerin Meschino and with the newspapers La Stampa and Corriere della Sera.