Storia dell’educazione linguistica in Italia. Dalla Legge Casati alla Riforma Gelmini.

In view of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Union of Italy, the national Commission asked me to provide a history of language education since 1861 (in fact, since 1859, when the Piedmontese school system was designed which was to be later adopted by thenew born Italian Kingdom). The basic idea of the study is that what was suggested or imposed by ministerial programmes and syllabuses showed what the idea of "united Italy" was in the different periods of our history.