Content note: Wartime front page that labels opposing deputies 'traitors of Italy' and calls on the country to rise against them. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Il Popolo d'Italia, 11 December 1915: 'L'ultimo conato parecchista alla Camera' (front page, upper half)
Upper half of the front page of Il Popolo d'Italia, the day after a sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, under the banner 'L'ultimo conato parecchista alla Camera' and the call 'Il Paese insorga contro i traditori d'Italia'. 'Parecchista' is a loaded label for deputies who had followed Giolitti's neutralist line, and 'traditori d'Italia' names them traitors. The masthead carries two epigraphs credited to Blanqui and to Napoleon as authorities for its line.
- Date
- December 11, 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Il Popolo d'Italia, Milan (daily founded by Benito Mussolini in 1914; masthead subtitle 'quotidiano socialista')
- Country
- Kingdom of Italy
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Salandra Government
- Leader
- Antonio Salandra
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Name-callingTestimonial
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photograph of the original by the uploader mcleclat), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain original (Italian newspaper, 1915); Commons photograph licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (uploader mcleclat)
Il Popolo d'Italia, Milan, 11 December 1915, no. 343. Photograph by mcleclat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Chi ha del ferro, ha del pane. BLANQUI Il Popolo d'Italia QUOTIDIANO SOCIALISTA Fondatore: BENITO MUSSOLINI La rivoluzione è un'idea che ha trovato delle baionette. NAPOLEONE Anno II. — N. 343 — Milano. Sabato 11 Dicembre 1915 DIREZIONE ed AMMINISTRAZIONE Via Paolo da Cannobio, 35 UFFICIO DI PUBBLICITÀ Via Manzoni N. 6 L'ultimo conato parecchista alla Camera Il Paese insorga contro i traditori d'Italia [column headings:] Al Cancelliere / La seduta di ieri / La propaganda clericale nell'esercito / Gli incidenti provocati da Dugoni / Contro il tentativo [column text and the lower half of the page: not transcribed]
He who has iron has bread. BLANQUI The People of Italy SOCIALIST DAILY Founder: BENITO MUSSOLINI Revolution is an idea that has found bayonets. NAPOLEON Year II. — No. 343 — Milan. Saturday 11 December 1915 DIRECTION and ADMINISTRATION Via Paolo da Cannobio, 35 ADVERTISING OFFICE Via Manzoni No. 6 The last 'parecchista' effort in the Chamber Let the Country rise up against the traitors of Italy [column headings:] To the Chancellor / Yesterday's sitting / Clerical propaganda in the army / The incidents provoked by Dugoni / Against the attempt [column text and the lower half of the page: not transcribed]
Masthead, epigraphs, the two-line banner and the column headings are transcribed; the subscription-rates table, the price lines and the body columns are too small or not hosted. 'Conato' is rendered 'effort'; the original word carries the sense of a strained, last-ditch attempt. The file ends partway down the page.
