VI Aprile: Sveglia per le coscienze che dormono. Votate la Lista Nazionale (Fascist election poster, 1924)
Black-and-white poster of a young man in a Blackshirt-style uniform, breeches and puttees, blowing a bugle beside a fasces. The text reads 'VI Aprile, sveglia per le coscienze che dormono: votate la Lista Nazionale'. A military reveille and the Roman fasces lend a camp-bugle and state-authority air to a vote, and 'consciences' is appealed to without saying what they should find.
- Date
- 1924
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Fascist-led 'Lista Nazionale' campaign for the 6 April 1924 election; artist signed 'stop'
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from E. Rhodes, Propaganda, Moscow: Eksmo, 2008, p. 69), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (anonymous Italian poster, 1924, before 1931; Commons PD-old-70)
Artist signed 'stop'. Fascist 'Lista Nazionale' election poster, 1924. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
VI APRILE SVEGLIA per le coscienze che dormono VOTATE LA LISTA NAZIONALE [signature, lower left:] stop
SIXTH OF APRIL REVEILLE for the consciences that sleep VOTE THE NATIONAL LIST [signature:] stop
'Sveglia' is both the military wake-up call (reveille) and the imperative 'wake up'; the translation gives the first sense. The small signature is read as 'stop' and may be a pseudonym.
