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In recent years, research in the historical-educational field has greatly expanded the spectrum of sources used to reconstruct the history of teaching in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the true scholastic experience. To this end, the authors believe that the examination of teachers’ personal archives and libraries can provide a new contribution to the progress of studies in this sector. Proffering an initial overview of the results of their investigation, still scarce and in a certain sense entirely new to this field of research, the authors have focused on a very unique case study: the documentary and bibliographic archives of primary school teacher Maria Riccini (Ancona 1892- 1975), preserved at the University of Macerata’s Centre for documentation and research on the history of schoolbooks and children’s literature. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct, for the first time, the experiential journey of a specific teacher through a series of indisputably significant sources: her personal library, consisting of training texts (pedagogical and didactic manuals, disciplinary manuals from the normal school, etc.), texts adopted for teaching and continuing education (school textbooks and reading books for primary school students, teaching journals, and cultural magazines); her personal archives, containing documents related to her own didactic work (teaching programs, notes and summaries used for conducting lessons, notebooks with newspaper clippings collected for educational purposes, etc.), and materials produced by the students (dictated texts, essays, exercises, drawings, etc.). The novelty of the approach adopted in analysing this variegated set of sources consists in having cross-referenced and re-read them within the framework of a historical reconstruction that aims to insert the human and professional history of Riccini into the historical-cultural and historical-scholastic context in which she lived and worked, intertwining her life’s work with the significant eras that defined the nation’s history, from fascism to the post-World War II period. It is, therefore, a «story seen from within», which does not speak of an abstract category of teachers, but rather of a specific teacher, her contribution and her direct educational impact, in order to provide a new historiographical perspective on the history of teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper intends to reconstruct the climate of Turin where he lived and worked Giuseppe Levi, the particular figures which animated the subalpine universities in the fascist period, the fruitful interaction between Jewish and anti-fascist world. Particular attention will be devoted to the different reactions of the Jewish community during the confidence to fascism in 1931 oath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper reviews the digital edition Der Sturm – Digitale Quellenedition zur Geschichte der internationalen Avantgarde, which aims to bring together all existing digital sources on the STURM company, to make them accessible and to link them with each other. Initiated by Herwarth Walden by founding the STURM magazine for contemporary art, the STURM company provided many different platforms (e.g., gallery, publishing, theatre) for the art scene in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century and had also a big impact on the international avant-garde. The digital edition currently offers facsimiles, transcriptions, and commentaries on a part of the letters, the encoding of the sources and texts is done in TEI-XML and can be downloaded or accessed via an API. Inventory lists exist for the other documents which link to the source of the digital image. All semantic and structural entities of STURM sources are permanently referenced using persistent identifiers.

This paper presents a comparison of the exhibition of art in the Duke of Alba’s original Liria Palace in 1931, which was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, with a later exhibition in the reconstructed Liria Palace in 1957. It examines what is known of the original Liria Palace’s exhibition of art, as well as the history of those spaces, and compare it with the reconstructed Liria Palace. It also reflects on the significance of the role the art collection played in the reconstruction process. The exhibition of the Alba collection in the reconstructed Liria Palace formed part of the Duke’s strategies for perpetuating social distinction in the 20th century by preserving collective family memory, manifesting continuity, and imbuing the collection with unique meaning through the contextualization in this private setting.

This paper reviews a huge resource of contemporary Italian newspaper language, the «La Repubblica» corpus. The corpus contains articles, which appeared in the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica during the years 1985 to 2000 and counts more than 380 million tokens. Apart from being tokenized, it is also PoS-tagged, enriched with TEI-conformant structural mark-up as well as categorized with respect to topics and genres. The data and their preparation are addressed in the first part of this paper while its second part deals with access to the corpus. When the review was written, there were two possible ways of accessing the corpus: either by the ‘old’ interface directly hosted by the Institute of Translational Studies at the University of Bologna (SSLMIT) or by the ‘new’ one hosted by a NoSketch Engine. Both ways are compared in order to point out the changes.

The paper deals with the reconstruction of the main educational and cultural experiences lived by the Italian philosopher Mario Dal Pra (1914-1992), during his childhood and youth in Veneto (a region in the North-East of Italy). The classical studies in the seminary of Vicenza, the involvement in the local Catholic Movement (Azione Cattolica and then Fuci), the studies in Philosophy at the University of Padua under the guide of Erminio Troilo represented the pillars of his initial formation as a Catholic young scholar during the dreadful Fascist period. This kind of perspective, so effective in those years, was suddenly changed by Dal Pra into a new look on reality, philosophy and religion − influenced by a critical rationalism − after his commitment in Italian Resistance movement during the second world war. For this reason, an in-depth analysis of his “Venetian years” could offer an unreleased reading of his intellectual and religious origins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on Italy’s Fascist ossuaries of the First World War. It is intended to show how a methodology that uses images and texts can expose the political purposes that underpinned the creation of the ossuaries, to contribute to the literature on the commemoration of fallen soldiers, and to advance the study of war monuments as expressions of political forces. The paper also represents an attempt to bridge between different approaches to the study of war monuments that have emerged in history and in visual studies. It examines Italian ossuaries of the Great War as both objects and symbols, or as aesthetic configurations and carriers of political meanings. Physical characteristics, such as those associated with context, space and style, are shown to express elements of Fascist ideology relating, for instance, to hierarchy, victory and power.

This article aims to present some new academic journals on the history of pedagogy and education published in Russia today. These journals were mainly founded after 2003, and, since then, have been contributing to a substantial revival in the field of the history of education and pedagogy. This paper is divided into five parts. The introduction presents some major changes that have occurred in the history of education and pedagogy in post-Communist Russia since the end of the 20th century until the first decades of the 21st century. The three following parts, each divided into two sections, are dedicated to one of the most important Yearbooks and to the two main Russian academic journals, in particular to their institutional connections and evolution over the last decades: The History of Pedagogy Yearbook (IPE) (1.a); The History of Education Journal (IPZ) (2.a); National and Foreign Pedagogy (OZP) (3.a). These journals are published, respectively, by the Academy of Public Administration (Moscow) (1.b); the Nizhnii Tagil State Social Pedagogical Institute/the Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University (Ekaterinburg) (2.b); and the Institute for Strategy of Education Development of the Russian Academy of Education (Moscow) (3.b). The conclusion will also provide an overview of other relevant academic journals which have contributed to the history of education by publishing both monographic issues and individual articles. Finally, this article highlights major scientific achievements in the field, yielding rich, intensive and promising new historiographical discoveries.

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Paper focuses on two small provincial cities on Slovenian - Italian border, Italian Gorizia and Slovenian Nova Gorica. It examines the construction of collective memory in the 20th century up to the year 2007, when the Schengen border has been removed and the «wall» between the «divided cities» has finally been torn down. The analysis has focused on identity formation, on everyday life in the cities after the second world war, and people bitter- sweet stories and memories of living with the border. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), the well-known intellectual and entrepreneur who created the factory which produced the typewriters and calculators that became icons of design and efficiency around the world, considered Saint Augustine’s The City of God the first attempt to explore the concept of “Community”. Following in Augustine’s footsteps, Olivetti described The City of Men (1960), a systemic territorial, political, administrative, economic and cultural entity tailored to the needs of individuals, where people could fully realise their inner potential. He called this conceptual and concrete entity the “Community”, sowing the seed that would lead to the moral and civil reconstruction of postwar Italy whose aim was to merge the country’s productive-industrial and political-social worlds. This paper attempts to outline the development of Olivetti’s thinking about “Community”, from the functionality of production and urban spaces to their educational potential: thanks to the influence of personalist thinking, the material forces that created a productive-industrial/residential-social modernity were transformed into educational-spiritual forces at the service of people within the community

The aim of this paper is to revise a standard narrative about governance of the Swedish school system in the period of 1910-1908. According to this narrative, the Swedish school system was centralized during this period. However, this narrative does not fit the history of Swedish mathematics education (years 1-9). The research questions are: where in the school system was change initiated and how was change enforced? On the basis of studies of syllabi, textbooks, teaching literature, teacher journals and reports from investigations and development projects, different modes of governance of school mathematics are identified. The main results are that textbook producers rather than national syllabi and exams were drivers of change in the period 1910-1960. Moreover, the centralized attempts to change school mathematics, prepared in the 1960s, were soon abandoned in the early 1970s. Thus, centralized governance of Swedish school mathematics, with the ambition to achieve change, was something that took effect relatively late and during a very short period of time.

The paper explores the different approaches taken by 20th and 21st century scholars to Cicero’s extant political speeches before the Roman people (contiones). These speeches offer a resource for Cicero’s views on the role of this political body in the Roman res publica of his time. This study focuses on accounting for the reasons for those differences and how these readings of the contiones underpin diverse portraits of Cicero as an orator and politician. This bibliographic review of contrasting interpretations of the body of contiones helps shed light on why different generations of Cicero scholars and historians of the Roman Republic have judged Cicero as a “consistent” or “inconsistent” orator and politician. This focused bibliographic evaluation leads to a more rounded understanding of Cicero’s personality as portrayed in recent scholarly history and the dimensions this personality has taken on over the period. L’article étudie les approches opposées adoptées par les chercheurs du 20e siècle et du début du 21e siècle, quant aux discours politiques de Cicéron devant le peuples romain (contiones). Ils contiennent les vues de Cicéron sur le rôle de ce corps politique dans la res publica de son temps. Je me concentre sur les raisons mêmes de ces différences et sur la description de Cicéron en tant qu’orateur et homme politique. L’étude bibliographique que j’offre pour les points de vue contrastés clarifie les facteurs qui ont contribué à ces points de vue et éclairent la question de la cohérence ou de l’incohérence de Cicéron en tant qu’orateur et homme politique romain. Tout cela nous mène finalement à une meilleure compréhension de la personnalité de Cicéron et de ses divers impacts dans diverses circonstances historiques.

In this paper we review the „Corpus Oral de Referencia de la Lengua Española Contempóranea“. This corpus is a carefully compiled text collection of orthographically transcribed recordings of oral conversations. As it was compiled as a reference corpus, it provides texts of different styles and registers and has a considerable size of about 1,100,000 words. CORLEC therefore is an important resource for researchers interested in the field of spoken language. The Corpus is freely available as SGML-based-files or plain-text-files. As both variants are similar in their structure and content, the review addresses the two formats. The review first provides some background information and an overview of the structure of the corpus. Then, the transcription files are described in their structure and content. Eventually, a short overview of the integration of the corpus into other projects and a résumé are given.

The aim of this paper is to compare the process of fascist penetration in the Italian immigrant communities of Brazil and France. Through the fasci italiani all’estero and the Organizzazione Nazionale Dopolavoro’s sections, the fascistization of newspapers and associations and the construction of a system of alliances, the fascism obtained a good success in both France and Brazil. The comparative method helps to better understand the fascist ability to spread abroad propaganda and to gain the consensus of the masses of Italian immigrants.

This paper reviews the digital edition of Paul Klee’s Bildnerische Form- und Gestaltungslehre, the collection of his important teaching notes during his time at the Bauhaus as facsimile and transcript. A major challenge of this project is the dynamic nature of the material: the teaching material was restructured, revised and subsequently reused several times. While the transcriptions are unfortunately only available as images, which severely limits the possibilities for re-use of the research data, the edition nevertheless provides a vital source for art-historical research on an artist who influenced a generation of successors.

The institutionalisation of Slovenian art history began in 1913, when France Stele (1886-1972), a student of Max Dvořak (1874-1921), was appointed the conservator of the province of Carniola. It became fully established in 1919, when, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the University of Ljubljana was founded. The paper analyses the activities of three art historians, in addition to France Stele also Izidor Cankar (1886-1958) and Vojeslav Mole (1886-1973), who shaped Slovenian art history between the two world wars. After the end of World War II, all aspects of life were completely subordinated to the Soviet system of the one-party communist state. Ideological suitability was the only standard of acceptability, also at the university. In the immediate post-war period, the older generation of art historians, who were educated in the Western European tradition, mostly in Vienna, were placed in a completely new ideological-political context, which has highly influenced the development and methodology of the discipline until the present day.

Croatian poetry of the 20th century is the topic of this paper. It is being discussed as a dinamic evolutionary process. Poetical aspects of the avant-garde period and its formative impulses are seen as the base for a deeper understanding of more recent contemporary poetry. Examples quoted illustrate delimitating points of the new poetical field, which are placed at the very limits of neighboring codes. The textual analysis is being carried out primarily from the point of view of relations among various semantic codes, demonstrating the multimedial poetical character of the discussed period.