The periodical press for teachers in Italy (1861-1945)

Author reconstructs the origins and development of the periodical press for teachers and schools published in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries and, in particular, from the period of national unification (1861) until the fall of fascism and the end of the second world war (1945). Of the more than twelve hundred periodicals published in this phase, A. explores the typographic and editorial characteristics as well as the objectives and achievements, offering an extraordinarily rich and suggestive cross-section of the role that this periodical press played in the implementation, growth and modernization of the school system Italian, as well as the specific role it plays in the pedagogical and didactic innovation of the school, in the professional updating of teachers and in the legal and economic improvement of the entire teaching category.