Later that year, in November, Gorresio set off for Abyssinia (the Empire of Ethiopia), now designated as travelling editor. His mission was to report on what was being presented in Rome as the Italian conquest of the region. He stayed till February 1937. His reports were characteristically lucid and effortlessly authoritative, even if they contained judgements which many in Rome might have found contentious. His first impressions, on arriving in Abyssinia, were only reinforced during the three months of his stay, and his reports were consistent. Far from being the creators of a heroic new empire, the Italian in Ethiopia seemed to be behaving like emigrants through the ages anywhere else.