Luigi Borgomainerio

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Luigi Borgomainerio was an Italian engraver and caricaturist, active in the late 19th century. He was born at Como in 1836, was one of the cleverest caricaturists in the Spirito Folletto. and the founder of the Mefistofele. Subsequently he went to Brazil to engage in similar work for a comic paper, but died at Rio Janeiro in 1876, soon after his arrival.

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• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 159.