Arnoldo Mondadori

Arnoldo Mondadori (2 November 1889 – 8 June 1971) was a noted Italian publisher.

Biography
Mondadori was born in Poggio Rusco, Mantua in 1889.

His publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori Editore was founded in 1907 and is today the largest in Italy. After the First World War, Mondadori launched several successful book series including Gialli Mondadori in 1929, the first example of an Italian book series dedicated to detective and crime novels. In 1935, through an agreement with Walt Disney, the publishing house began the publication of a children's magazines based on Disney comics characters, which ran until 1988, when the agreement between Mondadori and the Walt Disney Company ended.

He died in Milan in 1971.