Emilio SINEO (1851 - 1898) "His Excellency; the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs; ends up becoming its budget - in spite of himself - the angel of rural postmen and ... telegrafiste of the devil." Cover of 'The Pasquino'; humorous weekly founded in Turin in 1856 by John Piacentini and Joseph Augustus Cesana (1821-1903) with the direction and artistic collaboration of the cartoonist Casimiro Teja (1830-1897). The magazine is named after the most famous of the 'talking statues' of Rome; at which the common people were using post overnight short satire in verse that took anonymously by targeting the most prominent and controversial at the time. Turin; July 11; 1897.