LEOPOLDO METLICOVITZ SEMPRE AVANTI!!

A grand and heroic depiction, almost painterly-like, of Italia leading Italian troops into battle, the Italian navy arrayed behind them on the sea. "The Italian war poster combined a note of sex-appeal with a stateliness... there is a continuing motif of the dominant female figure, solemnising allegiance, signposting the way to the battle" (Rickards p. 24). Rickards 34.