25 December 1911 happened: Giovanni Pascoli for the military in Tripolitania

or distributed to the crews of the United Naval Forces mounted cards issued by the "Maritime Magazine" showing the ode of Christmas Night written by Giovanni Pascoli and dedicated to sailors and soldiers in Tripolitania "because in Christmas they spend in war - come to them - with the voice of the Poet of Italy - the good word of the distant homeland: "Initiative of the director of the" Rivista ", rear-admiral Francesco Roberto Mazzinghi, who asked Giovanni Pascoli to write a" word of comfort and exhortation from the Fatherland "to be sent to the "good sailors and soldiers" engaged in Northern Africa over the Christmas period, an invitation immediately accepted by the "Poet of Italy".