This just in from Ettore in Italy:

[Last week, in the italian TV magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni an article appeared about Mondadori Publishing Company's 100th Anniversary (Mondadori Editore). Mondadori has published Disney books and comic books [since the '30s and] until 1988 here in Italy.

Arnoldo Mondadori has been honored Disney Legend in 1997. Here is a 1935 photo portraying Walt Disney and Arnoldo Mondadori taken close to the Maggiore lake.]