--- title: L'Ardito front page marking the 15 April 1919 attack on the Avanti! offices, Milan url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/l-ardito-avanti-anniversary-front-page-1920/ description: Front page of L'Ardito under the headline 'From the balcony of the Avanti! the black banner flies! 15 April 1919'. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Cartoon of political opponents swept as refuse into a sewer, under a headline celebrating the burning of a newspaper office. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![L'Ardito front page marking the 15 April 1919 attack on the Avanti! offices, Milan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/l-ardito-avanti-anniversary-front-page-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/l-ardito-avanti-anniversary-front-page-1920.jpg) # L'Ardito front page marking the 15 April 1919 attack on the Avanti! offices, Milan Front page of L'Ardito under the headline 'From the balcony of the Avanti! the black banner flies! 15 April 1919'. The cartoon shows a helmeted Ardito in a tasselled cap sweeping a heap of tiny figures into a sewer opening with a broom. Political opponents are drawn as refuse to be cleared away, and the attack on their newspaper is presented as a feat. ## Text on the object Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` L'ARDITO GIORNALE DELL'ARDITISMO Direttore FERRUCCIO VECCHI Milano, Via Cerva [illegible] Dal balcone dell' "Avanti!" sventola il vessillo nero! 15 Aprile 1919 [caption under the cartoon: illegible] L'Ardito nel I anniversario della distruzione dell'Avanti! ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE ARDITO NEWSPAPER OF ARDITISMO Director FERRUCCIO VECCHI Milan, Via Cerva [illegible] From the balcony of the "Avanti!" the black banner flies! 15 April 1919 [caption under the cartoon: illegible] L'Ardito on the 1st anniversary of the destruction of the Avanti! ``` The masthead date line and issue number at the top, the street number, the small column text and the cartoon caption are illegible at this resolution. The footer is read from a heavily degraded half-tone; 'I anniversario' is the best reading. [← Красный подарок белому пану (A Red Gift for the White Lord): Soviet Polish-Soviet War poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krasny-podarok-belomu-panu-1920/) ["Mora Dravca vsahniti" plebiscite postcard no. 9 (The Drava Must Dry Up) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mora-dravca-vsahniti-plebiscite-postcard-1920/) ## Using the same techniques - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)