This hand-painted poster by Carmelo Chines, pasted with the 'ricordino' giving a handwritten summary of the performance, advertised a puppet show in Taormina, Sicily, in about 1920. It is illustrated with a scene from The History of the Paladins in which Candellino fights and defeats Rodomonte (shown wearing crocodile armour) and Ferraù, the Prince of Spain.

This traditional type of Sicilian puppetry known as Opera dei Pupi developed in Italy during the 19th century and was typically full of exciting action, recreating battles between Christians and Saracens, or telling the stories of Italian poems or the lives of saints. It was played by wooden marionettes of two types, from Palermo and Catania, suspended on iron rods. Palermo puppets were about 90cms tall, weighed less than 15 kilos and had bendable knee joints, while Catanian puppets could be as tall as 140cms, weigh 35 kilos, had stiff knees and fixed swords, and were operated by perfomers stading above the stage on a bridge concealed by he proscenium arch.