Page 410 - Lanzarotto Malocello from Italy to the Canary Islands

410 from Italy to the Canary Islands

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During the war, the Italian armed forces would give blank postcards
to its military personnel so they could
maintain contact with their families;
since they were free of charge because
paid by the government, they were called
“Franchigie”. Below is the picture of an
envelope belonging to a letter sent by a
seaman of the destroyer Malocello to his
family, where the name of the ship named
after our navigator is clearly visible.

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Curiously, no country remembered Lanzarotto Malocello, except the
small Republic of Cape Verde, which dedicated a fifty crown stamp to
him; see the picture below, where you can see his imagined profile both as
a young and an old man.

Stamps depicting Antonio da Noli and Lanzarotto Malocello.