The Italian Genius on Display. The First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy, by Francesco Barreca

• Paola Bernadette di Lietto ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Ca'Foscari University of Venice
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 39, Nº. 1, 2024, págs. 250-251
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In The Italian Genius on Display. The First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy (Brill, 2022), Francesco Barreca aims to reconstruct the cultural and historical premises behind the setup of the First National Exhibition of History of Science. The author not only considers how the propaganda affected the evolution of the history of material science but also adds a noteworthy contribution to the knowledge of the Italian historical-scientific collections thanks to the key role that the Florentine Exhibition had in stimulating the institutions to explore their own scientific heritage.