Carmelo Filardi

Carmelo Filardi
Cover of Filardi's book
Born	Carmelo Filardi Cantisani[1] November 25, 1900 Yauco, Puerto Rico
Died	December 7, 1989 Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Nationality	American
Occupation	Cartoonist
Known for	cartoons published in El Mundo newspaper
Children	Carlos Filardi Antonmattei[2][3]
Parent(s)	Vicente Filardi, Maria Cantisani
Relatives	Domingo Filardi, Juan Bautista Filardi

Carmelo Filardi (1900–1989) was a Puerto Rican artist of Italian ancestry. He was a cartoonist who had his work published in Puerto Rico's El Mundo newspaper starting in 1927. He was from Yauco, Puerto Rico^[4] and his parents were born in Italy.^[1] Filardi specialized in satire and journalistic criticism. To do this, he used depictions of average daily life in Puerto Rico to illustrate his thoughts. He was a caricaturist and his work is included in University of Puerto Rico collections.^[5]

His first published cartoon in El Mundo was in 1927.^[6] In 1947, he published a book called Un año de historia en caricaturas, which contained a selection of his works from 1946 to 1947.^[7]

In 1971, he published a book called Una Época de historia en Caricaturas. The book contained a collection of his works from 1948-1963. Eliseo Combas Guerra, wrote the prologue, selected the cartoons and annotated the work for the book, which was published by Editorial Universitaria of the University of Puerto Rico.^[8]

His cartoons which featured life and events about Puerto Rico include one when José Ferrer, a Puerto Rican actor won an Oscar.^[9]

Filardi's works and cultural influences have been featured and discussed in numerous books, publications and national archives such as:

• Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century by Magali Roy Féquière^[2]
• Harry S. Truman library & museum^[10]
• Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies(Vol. 20, Issue 1)^[11]
• Así es la vida (That's Life) by "Joaquín" Jack Delano^[12]
• Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático, 1950-1960 by Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo^[13]
• Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la crítica al desarrollismo muñocista 1950-1960 by Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo^[14]
• Recordando a Carmelo Filardi (Remembering Carmelo Filardi) by Helga I. Serrano^[15]
• Horizontes by S. Damary Burgos^[16]
• Abriendo Puertas by José Giovannetti^[17]
• Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination by Blanca Silvestrini-Pacheco and Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo^[18]
• Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: aproximación en tres movimientos by María Alejandra Aguilar-Dornelles^[19]
• Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico by Arturo Yépez^[20]
• Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira by Inter News Service^[21]
• El caso del señor Carmelo Filardi^[22]
• Luis Negrón López Rescatado por la historia by Héctor Luis Acevedo^[23]
• Salón de Humorismo | Exhibición 40/30^[24]
• DESTILANDO CAÑA: Resistência e rumclandestino na ilha de Porto Rico by José Manuel González Cruz^[25]
• Antología del olvido by Eugenio Ballou^[26]

There is a Carmelo Filardi Medal award.^[27]

Filardi is related to the family which built the Filardi House. His father was Vicente Filardi, the primary builder. His older brothers Juan Bautista and Domingo were also contributors.^[17] The professional tennis player Alex Llompart Filardi is also related to Carmelo Filardi.^[28]

See also

• Filardi House

References

1. "English: Carmelo Filardi Death Certificate". August 5, 2020 – via Wikimedia Commons.
2. Roy-Féquière, Magali (August 13, 2004). Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592132317 – via Google Books.
3. "Carlos Filardi Antonmattei Obituary - San Juan, PR". Dignity Memorial.
4. "Yauco, Puerto Rico". welcome.topuertorico.org.
5. "University of Puerto Rico".
6. Delano, Jack (1996). That's Life: Cartoons by "Joaquin" (in English and Spanish). University of Puerto Rico. p. 168. ISBN 08477-0247-2. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
7. Filardi, Carmelo (August 13, 1947). Un año de historia en caricaturas: selección de las publicadas en El Mundo de mayo del 1946 a mayo de 1947. Impr. Venezuela. OCLC 11125677 – via Open WorldCat.
8. "English: Title page of Una época de historia en caricaturas". August 6, 2020 – via Wikimedia Commons.
9. "1951: José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac y la Universidad de Puerto Rico". Periódico El Adoquín (in Spanish). July 15, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
10. "Political Cartoon, "Plantada" | Harry S. Truman". www.trumanlibrary.gov.
11. Barradas, Efrain (March 22, 2008). "Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo, Los dibujos del progreso: El mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la critica al desarrollismo munocista, 1950-1960". CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. 20 (1) – via go.gale.com.
12. Delano, Jack (August 13, 1996). That's Life. La Editorial, UPR. ISBN 9780847702473 – via Google Books.
13. Collazo, Rafael Cabrera (January 2008). "Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático". En Luis Muñoz Marín: Imágenes de la memoria, Fernando Picó, editor, San Juan, Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, 2008, pp. 258-299 – via www.academia.edu.
14. "Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo ?· la caricatura, como el chiste, tiene que tener un elemento que… - [PDF Document]". fdocuments.in.
15. "Recordando a Carmelo Filardi". vLex.
16. "Revista Horizontes: Primavera/Otoño 2011 | Año LIV Núms. 104-105".
17. "La Caricatura | Abriendo puertas". El Nuevo Dia.
18. Silvestrini-Pacheco, Blanca; Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo (1981). "Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination". Latin American Research Review. 16 (2): 156–171. doi:10.1017/S0023879100028363. JSTOR 2503130. S2CID 253136938.
19. Aguilar-Dornelles, María Alejandra (2018). "Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: Aproximación en tres movimientos". Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies. 2: 97. doi:10.23870/marlas.182.
20. "9788497432672: Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico - IberLibro - Yépez, Arturo: 8497432673". www.iberlibro.com.
21. Service, Metro-Inter News (10 October 2016). "Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira". Metro.
22. "El Mundo". ufdc.ufl.edu.
23. http://web.metro.inter.edu/ciedp/publicaciones/Luis-lopez-Negron-Book.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
24. "Salón de Humorismo | Exhibición 40/30 | Archivo General". AUTOGIRO/el giro del arte actual. August 29, 2010.
25. https://repositorio.unb.br/bitstream/10482/16988/1/2014_JoseManuelGonzalezCruz.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
26. "Rescata valiosas voces del pasado para hablarle al presente". La Perla del Sur. October 24, 2018. Archived from the original on June 15, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
27. here Archived January 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
28. https://www.pressreader.com/puerto-rico/el-nuevo-dia1/20140813/282445642212764 – via PressReader. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)