He then reported on the 1908 Messina earthquake, and in June of the following year reported from Adana, Turkey, on the infamous massacre of the Armenian population. In 1910 he published a widely read interview in the Paris paper, "Le Matin", with empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III; he co-founded a film journal, "L'arte muta" (The Silent Art) in 1915 and in 1924 was responsible for producing Italy's first newspaper photo supplement section, "il Mattino Illustrato", using the new rotogravure printing process. In general, he is viewed as one who took advantage of the good fortune of living in the same age as prominent literary and political figures of the young nation-state of modern Italy such as D'Annunzio and Crispi in order to help shape early Italian journalism.