Happy New Year from Pasquino in a sort of editorial illustrated on parchment; the weekly inaugurates the year of publication XLIII promising to old and new readers a number of initiatives; including a folder to store vintage; puzzles; and a competition with prizes for young cartoonists named in memory of recently deceased director Casimiro Teja. 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; December 26; 1897.