He entered the creative staff of the Nerbini publishing house in Florence in 1932 and remained there until 1940; for the weekly "Topolino" debuted at the end of 1932, the publisher had not correctly secured the rights and, pending the acquisition of them correctly, the title was provisionally modified from n. 3 in ""Il Giornale di Topo Lino"" and the character of Topolino was replaced by "Topo Lino", created by Giove Toppi and Gaetano Vitelli; correctly acquired the rights from King Features Syndicate, from n. 5 the original head was restored but the series of Topo Lino di Toppi and Vitelli continued up to the n. 6.