I know, Brett... I'm especially interested in legends/rumors about WW1 (yes, a lot of stories in Italy, too!). Here (alas. in Italian) an article by me and @sofialincos.bsky.social concerning a "mysterious airships" on Turin, NW Italy, in 1916... www.queryonline.it/2018/11/08/1...

A cool document of history, and for the history of puzzles (some details of the solutions would be unacceptable today). Thank you for posting it.

Oh, yes, sorry. Italian musical notes: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si (C D E F G A B).

Googling the solution, we found that this puzzle was published in italian magazine "L'Album" on December 3, 1859. The solution was published on December 10, 1859. It was digitized here:
books.google.it/books?id=wo5...

Then we have a "rivo" (river), "ossi" (bones), and "il mondo" (the world). I don't understand who is the character sitting at the table, but from the words nearby we deduce that it's called "Nora", a common feminine noun (a character from some 19th-century novel?).

Some explanations of the figures: the first is the letter N breaking an R (N rompe R), then the musical note LA. The figure with the cross is the Faith. The woman on the tower is Ero, a mythological figure who threw himself from a tower for love of Leander