Exhibition catalogues

Puppets and marionettes in Italy from the 16th century to the present day. Historical artistic literary evidence , Rome, Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1980, 227 p.

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The catalogue of the exhibition organised by the Library, with material largely from Maria Signorelli’s collection, constitutes a true small history of puppet and marionette theatre in Italy.

Photographic Memory, 1908-1923: from Alfredo De Giorgio’s Roman Album, Rome, Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1985, 167 p. Frontespizio Index Rare testimonies of early 20th century Rome (streets, shops, cafés, the Universal Exhibition) in images taken by an amateur photographer, music teacher and frequent artist.

Diverse guerre in una: la cultura italiana dell’interventismo, catalogue of the bibliographic exhibition 9 March – 9 May 1987, Rome, Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1987, 141 p. (cyclostyled). Frontespizio Index The documents on display in the exhibition are accompanied by short essays on the various aspects and cultural components of interventionism in Italy (irredentism, nationalism, futurism, D’Annunzio, etc.).

Internal Front. Propaganda and civil mobilisation in Italy during the Great War, bibliographic exhibition 21 December 1988 – 11 February 1989 , Rome, Library of Modern and Contemporary History, 1988, 2 op., 27 p., 35 p. Download pdf file The first booklet contains an essay by Andrea Fava on Il fronte interno e la propaganda di guerra (1915 – 1918); the second contains the files on the material on display from the Library’s rich collection concerning the period.

L’Italia nella rivoluzione, 1789 – 1799, edited by Giuseppina Benessati and Lauro Rossi, Bologna, Grafis, 1990, 400 p. (out of print). Frontespizio Index As well as being the catalogue of an exhibition organised together with the National Library, the Alcide Cervi Institute, the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies and the Institute for Cultural Heritage of Emilia Romagna, the book contains essays by the best-known historians of the 1789-1799 period.

A Silence of History. The liberation from the camps and the return of the deportees, Rome, ANED Sez. di Roma – Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1997, 202 p., (enclosed a booklet with the same title on the return of deportees to Italy). Frontespizio
Index This volume, which contains the catalogue of an exhibition imported from France on the difficulties encountered by lager prisoners upon their return to that country, is enriched by essays on the similar situation in Italy

A silence of history. The shadow of the Lager and the light of the will for redemption in the formulation of the Fundamental Principles of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. Three seminars , Rome, ANED Sez. di Roma – Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1997, 115 p.

Speeches by politicians, scholars, witnesses and students during three seminars dedicated respectively to the return from the lager of deported women, to Primo Levi and to an enquiry into the historical consciousness of young Europeans.

Founding the nation. The Republicans of 1849 and the defence of the Janiculum Hill, edited by Lauro Rossi , Rome, Fratelli Palombi, 2001, 151 p., (in trade). Frontespizio
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Stefano Lecchi photographer of the Republic This volume, published on the occasion of the exhibition held in the Library, studies the places, protagonists and testimonies of the Roman Republic of 1849, with particular reference to the events on the Janiculum Hill.

“Non omnis moriar”. I will not die completely.
The memory of the fallen in the Great War. Documentary exhibition. Rome, Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento – Library of Modern and Contemporary History, 2004, 32, LXI p. (out of print)

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The catalogue of the exhibition, organised by the Library and the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento, describes the various types of documents relating to the Italian soldier who fell in the Great War; the obituary pamphlets published by the families are of particular significance.