Napoleon and his reforms laid the foundations for the renewal of the school in Italy, which was subjected to radical changes later maintained by the restored governments. To extend primary education, the interventions centered on the textbook. This editorial product embodies educational, political and commercial issues and in those decades began to develop a defined and modern physiognomy. In Bologna, a city with an ancient didactic vocation, almost all printers, publishers and booksellers joined that palatable market: an almost unknown world, now rediscovered with the use of unpublished documents. Their precious allies were the elementary teachers, who wrote manuals in increasing quantities, aimed at gradually increasing readers. The volume traces the typographic production intended for teachers and students, both in Bologna and its territory, investigates the history of the school-educational book, shows the contradictions and the innovative spirit of a political class.
Infrante le consuetudini di Ancien régime, Napoleone e le sue riforme posero anche in Italia le premesse per rinnovare la scuola, che venne sottoposta a mutamenti radicali e duraturi, mantenuti poi dai governi restaurati. Per estendere l'istruzione primaria, gli interventi fecero perno sul libro di testo, merce editoriale al crocevia di istanze educative, politiche e commerciali, avviata in quei decenni a sviluppare una definita e moderna fisionomia. A Bologna, città dall'antica vocazione didattica, si calarono in quell'appetibile mercato pressoché tutti gli stampatori, gli editori e i librai: un mondo quasi sconosciuto, ora riscoperto con il ricorso a documenti inediti. Loro preziosi alleati furono gli insegnanti elementari, che firmarono manuali in tirature crescenti, rivolti a lettori in progressivo aumento. Il volume ripercorre appunto la produzione tipografica destinata a maestri e allievi della variegata rete scolastica di una città e del suo territorio, indaga la storia del libro scolastico-educativo nel tornante decisivo che vede nascere l'idea moderna dell'istruzione pubblica, mostra le contraddizioni e lo spirito innovativo di una classe politica.
Tra aula e torchio. Libri e scuola a Bologna da Napoleone all’età della Restaurazione
REATTI, CHIARA
Primo
2020
Abstract
Napoleon and his reforms laid the foundations for the renewal of the school in Italy, which was subjected to radical changes later maintained by the restored governments. To extend primary education, the interventions centered on the textbook. This editorial product embodies educational, political and commercial issues and in those decades began to develop a defined and modern physiognomy. In Bologna, a city with an ancient didactic vocation, almost all printers, publishers and booksellers joined that palatable market: an almost unknown world, now rediscovered with the use of unpublished documents. Their precious allies were the elementary teachers, who wrote manuals in increasing quantities, aimed at gradually increasing readers. The volume traces the typographic production intended for teachers and students, both in Bologna and its territory, investigates the history of the school-educational book, shows the contradictions and the innovative spirit of a political class.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
