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{{Short description|Puerto Rican artist (1900–1989)}}
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| name = Carmelo Filardi
| image = Cover of Una Época de historia en Caricaturas by Carmelo Filardi.png
| caption = Cover of Filardi's book
| birth_name = Carmelo Filardi Cantisani<ref name="Death Cert">{{Cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_Certificate_Carmelo_Filardi.jpg|title=English: Carmelo Filardi Death Certificate|date=August 5, 2020|via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref>
| birth_date = November 25, 1900
| birth_place = [[Yauco, Puerto Rico]]
| death_date = December 7, 1989
| death_place = [[Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico]]
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| nationality = American
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| known_for = cartoons published in [[El Mundo (Puerto Rico)|El Mundo]] newspaper
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| occupation = Cartoonist
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| children = Carlos Filardi Antonmattei<ref name="Roy-Féquière">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWi4kU9QP-YC&q=%22carmelo+filardi%22&pg=PA116-IA2|title=Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico|first=Magali|last=Roy-Féquière|date=August 13, 2004|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=9781592132317|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/san-juan-pr/carlos-filardi-antonmattei-6308440|title=Carlos Filardi Antonmattei Obituary - San Juan, PR|website=Dignity Memorial}}</ref>
| parents = Vicente Filardi, Maria Cantisani
| relatives = Domingo Filardi, Juan Bautista Filardi}}

'''Carmelo Filardi'''  (1900–1989) was a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] artist of Italian ancestry. He was a cartoonist who had his work published in Puerto Rico's {{lang|es|El Mundo}} newspaper starting in 1927. He was from [[Yauco, Puerto Rico]]<ref name=yauco>{{Cite web|url=https://welcome.topuertorico.org/city/yauco.shtml|title=Yauco, Puerto Rico|website=welcome.topuertorico.org}}</ref> and his parents were born in Italy.<ref name="Death Cert" />  Filardi specialized in satire and journalistic criticism. To do this, he used depictions of average daily life in Puerto Rico to illustrate his thoughts. He was a [[caricature|caricaturist]] and his work is included in [[University of Puerto Rico]] collections.<ref name=univ>{{cite web|url=http://www.terra.com/arte/articulo/html/art3560.htm |title=University of Puerto Rico}}</ref>

His first published cartoon in [[El Mundo (Puerto Rico)|''El Mundo'']] was in 1927.<ref name="delano">{{cite book|last=Delano|first=Jack|title=That's Life: Cartoons by "Joaquin"|year=1996|publisher=[[University of Puerto Rico]]|isbn=08477-0247-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zuSGq50CFQC&pg=PA168|authorlink=Jack Delano|accessdate=22 December 2012|page=168|language=English, Spanish}}</ref> In 1947, he published a book called ''Un año de historia en caricaturas'', which contained a selection of his works from 1946 to 1947.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11125677|title=Un año de historia en caricaturas: selección de las publicadas en El Mundo de mayo del 1946 a mayo de 1947|first=Carmelo|last=Filardi|date=August 13, 1947|publisher=Impr. Venezuela|oclc=11125677|via=Open WorldCat}}</ref> 

In 1971, he published a book called {{lang|es|Una Época de historia en Caricaturas}}. The book contained a collection of his works from 1948-1963. Eliseo Combas Guerra, wrote the prologue, selected the cartoons and annotated the work for the book, which was published by Editorial Universitaria of the [[University of Puerto Rico]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Title_page_of_una_epoca_de_historia_en_caricaturas.png|title=English: Title page of Una época de historia en caricaturas|date=August 6, 2020|via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref> 

His cartoons which featured life and events about Puerto Rico include one when [[José Ferrer]], a Puerto Rican actor won an Oscar.<ref name="Adoquín 2019">{{cite web | title=1951: José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac y la Universidad de Puerto Rico | website=Periódico El Adoquín | date=July 15, 2019 | url=https://eladoquintimes.com/2019/07/15/1951-jose-ferrer-cyrano-de-bergerac-y-la-universidad-de-puerto-rico/ | language=es | access-date=September 28, 2023}}</ref>

Filardi's works and cultural influences have been featured and discussed in numerous books, publications and national archives such as:
* Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century by Magali Roy Féquière<ref name="Roy-Féquière">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWi4kU9QP-YC&q=%22carmelo+filardi%22&pg=PA116-IA2|title=Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico|first=Magali|last=Roy-Féquière|date=August 13, 2004|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=9781592132317|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* Harry S. Truman library & museum<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/64-731|title=Political Cartoon, "Plantada" &#124; Harry S. Truman|website=www.trumanlibrary.gov}}</ref>
* Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies(Vol. 20, Issue 1)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=15386279&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA289216961&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|title=Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo, Los dibujos del progreso: El mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la critica al desarrollismo munocista, 1950-1960|first=Efrain|last=Barradas|date=March 22, 2008|journal=CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies|volume=20|issue=1|via=go.gale.com}}</ref>
* Así es la vida (That's Life) by "Joaquín" Jack Delano<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zuSGq50CFQC&q=%22carmelo+filardi%22&pg=PA134|title=That's Life|first=Jack|last=Delano|date=August 13, 1996|publisher=La Editorial, UPR|isbn=9780847702473|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático, 1950-1960 by Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/12441504|title=Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático|first=Rafael Cabrera|last=Collazo|journal=En Luis Muñoz Marín: Imágenes de la memoria, Fernando Picó, editor, San Juan, Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, 2008, pp. 258-299|date=January 2008 |via=www.academia.edu}}</ref>
* Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo caricaturesco de Filardi y la crítica al desarrollismo muñocista 1950-1960 by Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fdocuments.in/document/los-dibujos-del-progreso-el-mundo-la-caricatura-como-el-chiste-tiene-que.html|title=Los dibujos del progreso: el mundo ?· la caricatura, como el chiste, tiene que tener un elemento que… - [PDF Document]|website=fdocuments.in}}</ref>
* Recordando a Carmelo Filardi (Remembering Carmelo Filardi) by Helga I. Serrano<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vlex.com.pr/vid/recordando-carmelo-filardi-225312490|title=Recordando a Carmelo Filardi|website=vLex}}</ref>
* Horizontes by S. Damary Burgos<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://publicaciones.pucpr.edu/version_digital/revista_horizontes_LIV_104-105/6/#zoom=z|title = Revista Horizontes: Primavera/Otoño 2011 &#124; Año LIV Núms. 104-105}}</ref>
* Abriendo Puertas by José Giovannetti<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.elnuevodia.com/abriendo-puertas-a-la-esperanza/2020/06/13/1644/|title=La Caricatura &#124; Abriendo puertas|website=El Nuevo Dia}}</ref>
* Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination  by Blanca Silvestrini-Pacheco and Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Sources for the Study of Puerto Rican History: A Challenge to the Historian's Imagination|author1=Silvestrini-Pacheco, Blanca|author2=Maria de los Angeles Castro Arroyo|year=1981|journal=Latin American Research Review|volume=16|issue=2|pages=156–171|doi=10.1017/S0023879100028363 |jstor=2503130|s2cid=253136938 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: aproximación en tres movimientos by María Alejandra Aguilar-Dornelles<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://marlasjournal.com/articles/10.23870/marlas.182 | doi=10.23870/marlas.182 | title=Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: Aproximación en tres movimientos | date=2018 | last1=Aguilar-Dornelles | first1=María Alejandra | journal=Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies | volume=2 | page=97 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico by Arturo Yépez<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iberlibro.com/9788497432672/Historia-Humor-Gr%C3%A1fico-Puerto-Rico-8497432673/plp|title=9788497432672: Historia del Humor Gráfico en Puerto Rico - IberLibro - Yépez, Arturo: 8497432673|website=www.iberlibro.com}}</ref>
* Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira by Inter News Service<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metro.pr/pr/arteycultura/2016/10/10/analizaran-impacto-caricatura-satira.html|title=Analizarán el impacto de la caricatura y la sátira|first=Metro-Inter News|last=Service|website=Metro|date=10 October 2016 }}</ref>
* El caso del señor Carmelo Filardi<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/CA03599022/00415/27x|title=El Mundo|website=ufdc.ufl.edu}}</ref>
* Luis Negrón López Rescatado por la historia by Héctor Luis Acevedo<ref>http://web.metro.inter.edu/ciedp/publicaciones/Luis-lopez-Negron-Book.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
* Salón de Humorismo | Exhibición 40/30<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://autogiro.cronicaurbana.com/es/salon-de-humorismo-4030/|title=Salón de Humorismo &#124; Exhibición 40/30 &#124; Archivo General|date=August 29, 2010|website=AUTOGIRO/el giro del arte actual}}</ref>
* DESTILANDO CAÑA: Resistência e rumclandestino na ilha de Porto Rico by José Manuel González Cruz<ref>https://repositorio.unb.br/bitstream/10482/16988/1/2014_JoseManuelGonzalezCruz.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
* Antología del olvido by Eugenio Ballou<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.periodicolaperla.com/rescata-valiosas-voces-del-pasado-para-hablarle-al-presente/|title=Rescata valiosas voces del pasado para hablarle al presente|date=October 24, 2018|website=La Perla del Sur|access-date=August 8, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615212329/https://www.periodicolaperla.com/rescata-valiosas-voces-del-pasado-para-hablarle-al-presente/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There is a Carmelo Filardi Medal award.<ref>[http://www.flmm.org/noticias_16.htm here] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125215652/http://www.flmm.org/noticias_16.htm |date=January 25, 2009 }}</ref>

Filardi is related to the family which built the [[Filardi House]]. His father was Vicente Filardi, the primary builder. His older brothers Juan Bautista and Domingo were also contributors.<ref name="auto"/> The professional tennis player [[Alex Llompart|Alex Llompart Filardi]] is also related to Carmelo Filardi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/puerto-rico/el-nuevo-dia1/20140813/282445642212764|title=|via=PressReader}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Filardi House]]

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[[Category:Puerto Rican cartoonists]]
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[[Category:People from Yauco, Puerto Rico]]
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