The Italian Alpine soldier's uniform appears in a woodcut (right) from a book of poetry by Orazio Camaiori printed in Pisa in 1915. The poems are in the popular verse form of the stornello, whose first line always refers to a type of flower. The first one from the top scathingly refers to the Austrians, who in the previous stornello are suffering blows from the Italians: "Iris flower,/ when [an Austrian soldier] suffers [a blow], he says, 'I don't feel it;'/ and when he retreats, he says 'I won, I won!'"