Sillabria

Description

In the years when words had a true meaning and were not put there to leave at least one sign, the primary school was easily called elementary school. It was the school where you learned to hold a pencil in your hand, to make the auctions for calligraphy and then you learned to read and write the syllables, that is, to a sound you matched an image, in short, what you now teach to the maternal.

In 30 years they were not in many who could go to school, although it was mandatory. The First World War had left many strascisks and often twenty years are not enough to improve the economic conditions of a family, especially in a substantially poor country like Italy, for centuries divided into warring battles, with a formal unit just made.

This slender is published by The State Library, published in 1940. The State Library was born immediately after the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, and is called Royal Stampery. It is the official organ of the Kingdom, the typography in which the royal decrees, the legal codes are printed, and in short everything that is necessary to a state to circulate information and laws, from North to South. It is therefore born in 1869, it is transformed immediately after in Libreria dello Stato and thanks to the precious machinery, it publishes not only the official acts but also aims to spread the culture in our country; so print editions of value dedicated to art and architecture, and also important university texts as well as catalogs of exhibitions, in short, all the best passed through there.

Regia Stamperia decided to choose the Bodoni character (...)

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