{{Short description|Italian puppet and comic series}} [[File:Raffaele Pisu, Provolino and Margaret Lee.jpg|thumb| Provolino between [[Margaret Lee (English actress)|Margaret Lee]] and [[Raffaele Pisu]] in 1970.]]
'''Provolino''' was an Italian [[puppet]] character who enjoyed huge success in Italy between the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was created by [[Castellano and Pipolo]] who also wrote the dialogues.
==Television==
The puppet was introduced by [[Raffaele Pisu]] in the [[RAI]] variety shows ''Vengo anch'io'' and ''Ma che domenica amici'' in 1968.<ref name=Grasso>{{cite book|last1=Aldo Grasso|title=Storia della televisione italiana|year=2000 |publisher=Garzanti, 2000|isbn=8811738830|page=193}}</ref> A baby with big teeth, he was featured as the disrespectful alter ego of Pisu, with whom he had constant bickering which always ended with the catchphrase: "Boccaccia mia statti zitta!" (i.e. "bad mouth of mine, please shut up!"). The puppet was animated by Pisu himself and originally voiced by [[Oreste Lionello]],<ref name="Grasso"/> replaced by [[Franco Latini]] in 1969.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,20/articleid,0857_02_1991_0031_0020_24998652/ |title=Morto Latini, voce di Paperino|newspaper= Stampa Sera|date= 4 February 1991|access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref>
==Comics adaptation== [[File:Provolino.jpg|thumbnail|Comic version of Provolino, 1977.]]
The character was later adapted into a comic series, which was created by [[Pierluigi Sangalli]] and [[Alberico Motta]] and which became the title character of several comics magazines (''Provolino'', ''Super Provolino'' and ''Provolino Story'') published by editor Bianconi between 1970 and 1990.<ref name=dvd>{{cite book|last=Gianni Bono|title=Guida al fumetto italiano|publisher=Epierre, 2003|pages=1437, 1564–1566}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
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