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title: Finalmente!! (At Last!!), Italia with two kneeling women
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finalmente-metlicovitz-1918/
description: A crowned, sword-bearing Italia with a Savoy cross on her breast reaches toward two women, one in red kneeling and one in green leaning on her, while…
section: Collection
---

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# Finalmente!! (At Last!!), Italia with two kneeling women

A crowned, sword-bearing Italia with a Savoy cross on her breast reaches toward two women, one in red kneeling and one in green leaning on her, while aeroplanes and advancing troops fill the sky behind. The classical personification of the nation is set to receive the two women, so that a territorial claim reads as a rescue.

## Text on the object

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
FINALMENTE !!
[small imprint at lower left: Lit. G. Ricordi & C. - Milano; at lower right a copyright line, illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
AT LAST !!
[small imprint at lower left: Lithograph G. Ricordi & C., Milan; at lower right a copyright line, illegible]
```

The two imprint lines are small; the lower right line is not legible.

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