«Italian beauties». The Italian cultural heritage and its landscape and natural resources in the school exercise books from the Fascist period to the World War II

This paper intends to assess the forms and methods through which the Italian cultural heritage and its landscape and natural resources have been the subject of an organic presentation and reproduced on the covers of school exercise books for the purpose of promoting national identity and civil consciousness in the younger generations. The school exercise books, with their different and richly illustrated covers, in fact, stroke the imagination of generations of students, becoming much more than a modest teaching support or a minor element of the educational kit.