Avanti and Diyaryo Filipino

Filipinos are almost always Italian-inspired in their ways and passion.

Abante tabloid daily newspaper in Manila was inspired by Avanti! the Italian newspaper http://www.avantionline.it/.

Abante's first publisher was National Artist for Literature, Virgilio "Rioalma" Almario. Fresh from Rome in the late-1980s, Almario got PhP500,000.00 and he founded Abante with screaming headlines that listed down and named names as to who were the homosexuals in the Senate, among others No-No's during that era. He run out of money after a few months and offered the publishing management to the Valdez accounting firm. Not long after, the firm passed on the management of Abante http://www.abante.com.ph/ to the Macasaet father-and-son who, back then, was successfull in turning Malaya broadsheet daily newspaper into a gold mine.

Stories from the grapevine had it that "Abante started to publish on May 1988, the newspaper was famous for its adult column entitled 'Xerex Xaviera,' which also appeared on its sister paper Abante Tonite. In 2003, Regal Films released its film based on Xerex story, it was a trilogy and starred by sexy star Aubrey Miles. In mid-2004 Xerex stopped publishing columns to give way to a shifting to all-family paper."

Avanti! ("Forward!") is an Italian daily newspaper, born as the official voice of the Italian Socialist Party, published since 25 December 1896. It took its name from its German counterpart Vorwärts, the party-newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

First housed in Rome, Avanti! moved to Milan in 1911. While it advocated neutrality on the wake of World War I (which it viewed as an imperialist conflict), the paper was becoming infused with the militarist and irredentist attitudes of its editor at the time, future Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (who had risen to prominence as an opponent of Filippo Turati during the Italo-Turkish War). Mussolini's dissent caused his ousting from the party, Avanti!'s direction being taken over by Giacinto Menotti Serrati, Mussolini then started his own paper Il Popolo d'Italia with Syndicalist and Republican dissidents from the Socialist Party.

The paper's headquarters were set on fire by Mussolini's Blackshirts on 15 April 1919, and it was banned by the government in 1926. From that point on, Avanti! was issued as a weekly, and was edited in exile – first in Paris and then in Zürich, at the Ristorante Cooperativo.

With Mussolini's first fall in 1943, the paper returned to Italy. However, its circulation was drastically curtailed due to changes in political options after World War II. After losing its popularity, Avanti! ceased to be a respectful newspaper merely becoming a party-newspaper of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI).

After Abante, Almario published Diyaryo Filipino - the only 1990s daily broadsheet newspaper in Filipino or Tagalog language.