La Domenica del Corriere, 1 November 1936, cover: 'Il fondatore dell'Impero' (Rome)
Colour weekly cover: a large profile portrait of Mussolini in a crested steel helmet and military tunic, with a pale, ghosted profile of a Roman helmeted head behind his shoulder. The printed caption reads 'Il fondatore dell'Impero' (The founder of the Empire). The tell: the translucent legionary profile places the leader inside an unbroken line from ancient Rome, and the caption credits the Empire to him alone.
Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page
- Date
- November 1, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- La Domenica del Corriere (weekly illustrated supplement of the Corriere della Sera, Milan); cover drawing by Achille Beltrame; published in Fascist Italy
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, War and the military
- Event
- Second Italo Ethiopian War
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD tag; Italian basis, URAA status not asserted)
Achille Beltrame, La Domenica del Corriere, 1 November 1936; via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
LA DOMENICA DEL CORRIERE Si pubblica a Milano ogni settimana Supplemento illustrato del "Corriere della Sera" Anno XXXVIII - N. 44 1 Novembre 1936 - Anno XV Centesimi 30 la copia Il fondatore dell'Impero (Disegno di Achille Beltrame)
THE FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE (Drawing by Achille Beltrame)
Masthead subscription and office boxes omitted.
