Name of Object:

Receipt for a subscription among the Italians in Tunisia to buy Italy a plane

Location:

Livorno, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Livorno

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Livorno

Date of Object:

Tunis, 15 April 1912

Description:

We do not know whether the Italians living in Tunisia who collected money to buy Italy a plane were aware that Italy would use planes to bomb civilians in Libya. To be sure, they supported Italian expansionist policy.
This receipt bears the signature of the treasurer of the committee that was collecting funding to buy Italy a plane, Giuseppe Di Vittorio, the owner of a successful construction company. The donor, Ugo Moreno, was another “big man” of the Italian community in Tunisia: a lawyer, he established a bank (Banca Italiana di Credito), in 1901 started an oil company (Societé du Pétrole) and in 1919 became town councillor in Tunis.

Type of Object

Archival document

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASLi, Famiglia Moreno di Tunisi, b. 6

Citation of this web page:

Massimo Sanacore "Receipt for a subscription among the Italians in Tunisia to buy Italy a plane" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;107;en

Prepared by: Massimo Sanacore
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 107