In the arcaded cloister of a medieval Perugian monastery converted to a military hospital, Italian soldiers in dark field uniforms and distinctive spiked-brim caps mingle with patients in white hospital gowns — a quietly poignant scene from the Italian front's home front during the First World War. The ribbed Gothic vaults of warm brick arch overhead, their carved Corinthian capitals a striking contrast to the uniformed men below; one patient in a long white shift and bare legs stands apart, his posture suggesting recent convalescence. The Ospedale Militare of Perugia occupied the historic cloister of what is believed to be the former convent of San Pietro or a related complex, and this photographic postcard documents that wartime repurposing with uncommon directness.