Two gilded equestrian statues of Bourbon kings — Ferdinand I and Charles III — command the vast sweep of the Piazza del Plebiscito in this early hand-colored postcard of Naples, with the neoclassical colonnade of the Basilica of San Francesco di Paola curling around the square's edge and the fortress-crowned hill of Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino rising theatrically above the densely packed city behind; an early automobile and horse-drawn vehicles share the square in a fleeting Edwardian moment of technological transition. Published by Dr. Trenkler Co., Leipzig (no. 14553), one of Germany's most prolific early postcard houses, and bearing a "Cartolina Postale Italiana" reverse with an Italian 10-centesimi stamp, the card shows postmarks from both Naples and Leipzig — evidence of its transatlantic (or at least trans-European) journey — and was addressed to someone in Leipzig, with a message written partly across the image face in German, suggesting the sender ran out of room, a charming quirk of early undivided/divided-back transition cards.