Perched at the very lip of Orvieto's dramatic volcanic tufa cliff, the circular mouth of the famous Pozzo di San Patrizio — St. Patrick's Well, commissioned by Pope Clement VII after the Sack of Rome in 1527 and engineered by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger with its brilliant twin-helix staircase — stares skyward like an ancient stone eye, while the wide Paglia river valley unfolds in soft grey haze hundreds of feet below. Sent on Sunday, July 11, 1926, from Orvieto to Miss Mary Emogene in Syracuse, New York, the card bears a 75-centesimi Poste Italiane stamp (Victor Emmanuel III definitive series) cancelled at Orvieto and received at Syracuse with a July 28, 1926, 8:30 AM machine cancel — a transatlantic postal journey of 17 days. The message, written vertically in a flowing italic hand, is brief and affectionate. Published by Ediz. G. Caroli of Orvieto (no. 156), this is a clean, evocative document of interwar Italy and transatlantic personal correspondence.