During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, in Italy movable books on scientific and technological subjects were mainly of the anatomical type. They were mostly concentrated between the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, in the wake of the industrial revolution and positivist empiricism. Useful, clear and cheap, these books make knowledge accessible for everyone, thanks to their illustrations with flaps. Looking at the overall picture, a ‘Turin case’ emerges: in fact, more than two thirds of the Italian titles found are published in Turin by five publishers, Lattes, Paravia, the Unione Tipografico-Editrice, Casanova and Rosenberg & Sellier. The contribution reconstructs their production of scientific and tech-nological movable books, identifying their characteristics, titles and editions.
In Italia nel corso del XIX secolo e nella prima metà del XX i volumi animati tecnico-scientifici sono in prevalenza di tipo anatomico e si concentrano soprattutto fra gli anni ’90 dell’Ottocento e i primi due decenni del Novecento. Pratici, chiari ed economici, con le loro tavole scomponibili questi libri rendono il sapere alla portata di tutti, nel solco della rivoluzione industriale e dell’empirismo positivista. Guardando al quadro d’insieme, emerge una specificità torinese: a Torino risultano infatti pubblicati più dei due terzi dei titoli italiani a oggi censiti, frutto soprattutto del lavoro degli editori Lattes, Paravia, Unione Tipografico-Editrice, ma anche di Casanova e Rosenberg & Sellier. Il contributo ricostruisce la loro produzione di libri animati scientifici e tecnici, individuandone caratteristiche, titoli ed edizioni.
Libri animati scientifici e tecnici in Italia: il caso torinese (secc. XIX-XX) / Pollone, ELIANA ANGELA. - In: JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE BOOKS. - ISSN 2785-6569. - 2:(2023), pp. 16-35. [10.57579/2023.2]
Libri animati scientifici e tecnici in Italia: il caso torinese (secc. XIX-XX)
Eliana Angela Pollone
2023
Abstract
During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, in Italy movable books on scientific and technological subjects were mainly of the anatomical type. They were mostly concentrated between the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, in the wake of the industrial revolution and positivist empiricism. Useful, clear and cheap, these books make knowledge accessible for everyone, thanks to their illustrations with flaps. Looking at the overall picture, a ‘Turin case’ emerges: in fact, more than two thirds of the Italian titles found are published in Turin by five publishers, Lattes, Paravia, the Unione Tipografico-Editrice, Casanova and Rosenberg & Sellier. The contribution reconstructs their production of scientific and tech-nological movable books, identifying their characteristics, titles and editions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.