Perched above Lake Como, the hillside village of Brunate glows in the warm palette of an early chromolithograph, its red-roofed villas and church spire rising through terraced gardens — and the caption proudly announces this as the place where Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery, was nursed as an infant: "Brunate (Ove Fu a Balia Alessandro Volta)", meaning "Brunate, where Alessandro Volta was wet-nursed." It is a wonderfully specific piece of Italian local pride, the kind of card a science enthusiast or a Como tourist named perhaps Luigi or Adele might have treasured around 1900. Published as a "Cartolina Postale Italiana" (with the French subtitle "Carte Postale d'Italie"), this undivided-back card predates the 1902 Italian postal reform, placing it firmly in the pioneering era of Italian picture postcards. The illustration is numbered N.4 and bears the artist initials "PU" lower right.