---
title: 'La Tribuna illustrata, 28 April 1912: ''Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati'' (p. 264)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tribuna-illustrata-avvenimenti-tripolitania-1912/
description: Photo page on the Italo-Turkish war, headed 'Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Colonial-war photo page of 1912 with period captions about Libyan inhabitants ('peaceful inhabitants of the oasis', 'little friends of the soldiers') and Sudanese troops; no violence shown. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![La Tribuna illustrata, 28 April 1912: 'Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati' (p. 264)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tribuna-illustrata-avvenimenti-tripolitania-1912.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tribuna-illustrata-avvenimenti-tripolitania-1912.jpg)

# La Tribuna illustrata, 28 April 1912: 'Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati' (p. 264)

Photo page on the Italo-Turkish war, headed 'Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati'. The lead calls the week 'Settimana gloriosa per i destini d'Italia', and the captions frame the pictures: 'I pacifici abitatori dell'oasi' (Bedouin families), 'I piccoli amici dei soldati', 'L'eroico cannoniere Meloni'. The page shows no combat or casualties, and the text reports 'Nessuna perdita da parte nostra' against enemy dead.

## Text on the object

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

```
— 264 —
Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati

[photograph captions:]
Una famiglia beduina nell'oasi
I pacifici abitatori dell'oasi
Sudanesi arruolati dal capitano Manara
I piccoli amici dei soldati
Il maggiore dei granatieri Grazioli (Fotografia «Argus»)
Il P 2 ritorna a Tripoli da Zuara
L'eroico cannoniere Meloni (Fotografia Paglietti)

[opening of the text, column 1:]
Settimana gloriosa per i destini d'Italia è stata quella trascorsa, apertasi con lo sbarco presso Zuara, tanto atteso, si è chiusa con un annunzio di azione navale nell'Egeo, con un lungo bombardamento contro i forti turchi delle due sponde dei Dardanelli da parte delle nostre navi.

[from the text, column 3:]
Nessuna perdita da parte nostra mentre il nemico ha lasciato sul campo parecchie vittime.

[remaining column text: not transcribed]
```

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

```
— 264 —
The events of Tripolitania illustrated

[photograph captions:]
A Bedouin family in the oasis
The peaceful inhabitants of the oasis
Sudanese enlisted by Captain Manara
The little friends of the soldiers
The major of the grenadiers Grazioli (Photograph 'Argus')
The P 2 [airship] returns to Tripoli from Zuara
The heroic gunner Meloni (Photograph Paglietti)

[opening of the text, column 1:]
The week just passed has been a glorious one for the destinies of Italy: it opened with the long-awaited landing near Zuara and closed with an announcement of naval action in the Aegean, with a long bombardment by our ships of the Turkish forts on both shores of the Dardanelles.

[from the text, column 3:]
No losses on our side, while the enemy left several casualties on the field.

[remaining column text: not transcribed]
```

Read from the 1280 px page image. Title, all photograph captions, the page number, the opening sentence of the text and one sentence from the third column are transcribed; the rest of the body columns is not. Line-break hyphenation in the print is removed in the transcription.

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