Gaslit reflections ripple across the darkened water of Naples' Marina as small wooden fishing craft rock at their moorings beneath an ornate iron lamppost — an image of quiet nocturnal beauty that contrasts sharply with the fact that this card was authorized by Mussolini's Ministry of Popular Culture on 22 August 1942, deep in the Second World War, when Allied bombing of the port of Naples was an ever-present threat. The "Napoli di notte – Marina" view, printed in grainy black-and-white by the distinguished Alterocca firm of Terni (one of Italy's oldest and finest postcard printers), carries the wartime fascist-era authorization stamp "Aut. Min. Cultura Popolare 22–8–942" and the Anno XXI designation of the Fascist calendar — placing it precisely in the twenty-first year of Mussolini's regime. A building in the background bears the partial sign "CASO…" (likely Casorati or a commercial establishment), and the row of moored boats evokes the fishermen's Naples that survived, barely, through the chaos of those years. The deckled edges, cream stock, and scalloped border are hallmarks of Alterocca's wartime production. Unused and clean, this card is a small but resonant document of Italian civilian life under Fascism — the kind of souvenir that someone named perhaps an Enzo or a Concetta might have slipped into a drawer and never thought to send.