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Irmãos Vitale [Published Date: 1981]. The illustrated history of Rio's Samba schools. English edition. text by Haroldo Costa ; translated from the Portuguese by Peter T. Seidl. Hardcover, oversized (12 X 12"), unpaginated. Illustrated endpapers and illustrated throughout, mostly in black and white but with several in color, with Lan's wonderfully sumptuous and exuberant characters of Rio's Samba schools. In good+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with blind stamped character on front cover and silver embossed lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers with heavier scuffing and rubbing to the back cover. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Lanfranco Aldo Ricardo Vaselli Cortellini Rossi Rossini, or simply Lan is an Italian cartoonist based in the city ​​of Rio de Janeiro. In 1945, he began his professional life in newspapers Mundo Uruguaio and El Pais. In 1948, he moved to Buenos Aires where he was hired by Editorial Haynes, the largest publisher of the time in Argentina. This allowed him to work in the most important publications such as Sports World, Mundo Argentino, Mundo Infantil, Caras y Caretas, among others.In 1952, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, dazzled by its beaches and the joy of the people. Lan fell in love with the mulattoes who exhibit the lightness, grace, and exuberance of the Carioca women. In 1960, In 1952 Lan joined the newspaper Última Hora and in 1953, the magazine Flan and in 1962, he joined the Jornal do Brasil team where he remained for 39 years.