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
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.
- Date
- April 28, 1912
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- La Tribuna illustrata, Rome (illustrated weekly supplement of the Roman daily La Tribuna)
- Country
- Kingdom of Italy
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Giolitti Government
- Leader
- Giovanni Giolitti
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Event
- Italo Turkish War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesCard stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from the uploader's own collection), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain original (Italian weekly, 1912); Commons scan licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (own scan by Gianluca T.)
La Tribuna illustrata, Rome, 28 April 1912, p. 264. Scan by Gianluca T., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
— 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]
— 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.
