I «Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica» di Karl Kehrbach: un modello per la costruzione della tradizione pedagogica italiana (1884-1908)

This paper aims to describe the great influence exerted by German pedagogy on the Italian one during the last twenty years of the 19th century through the reconstruction of the growing reputation obtained by the ambitious project of the Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica promoted by Karl Kehrbach and the numerous attempts to promote a similar one also in Italy, in order to bring back to light our glorious educational tradition. After describing the fundamental features of the Kehrbach’s Monumenta, the stillembryonic initiative promoted by Romeo Taverni in Padua between 1882 and 1886 and the more organic project carried out by Luigi Credaro between 1896 and 1903 will be analyzed, underlining their similarities and differences and measuring their compliance with the German model.