Diario della Scuola Fascista. Treviso: Longo & Zoppelli, 1939-1940.
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Assignment book required of every school child in the Veneto. It begins with a full-page photograph of Mussolini, and includes quotations from his speeches and such highlights of Fascist history as the March on Rome and the Concordat between Church and State. They are followed by lists of the books to be used, the hours for each class, hours for teacher consultations, etc. Then begins the "diario" proper, with space for each day and each subject. At the top of each page there is a quotation from Mussolini. This diary not only offers a day-to-day description of the detailed activities of students, but also the method of presenting Fascist doctrine to them.


ITALIAN LIFE UNDER FASCISM: Selections from the Fry Collection
Exhibition in the Department of Special Collections
Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
July through September 1998