La Domenica del Corriere, 1 August 1943, back cover: 'Dopo l'incursione su Roma' (Milan)
Colour back page of the weekly: a white-robed Pope kneels and raises a hand before the roofless, rubble-strewn front of a church while a dense crowd of dark-clothed people kneels around him. The printed caption reads 'After the incursion on Rome. The Pontiff visits the ruins of the Basilica of San Lorenzo outside the Walls, kneels in prayer and then blesses the crowd.' The tell: the raid is called an 'incursione' and the attacker is not named; the picture offers grief and a religious figure rather than any account of who flew the raid or why.
Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page
- Date
- August 1, 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- La Domenica del Corriere (weekly illustrated supplement of the Corriere della Sera, Milan); 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
- Home front, War and the military, Religion
- Event
- World War II
- 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, no. 31, 1 August 1943; via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
Anno 45 - N. 31 La Domenica del Corriere 1 Agosto 1943 Dopo l'incursione su Roma. - Il Pontefice visita le rovine della Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, s'inginocchia a pregare e poi benedice la folla. (Disegno di A. Beltrame)
After the incursion on Rome. The Pontiff visits the ruins of the Basilica of San Lorenzo outside the Walls, kneels to pray and then blesses the crowd. (Drawing by A. Beltrame)
