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ISTITUTO GIOVANNI TRECCANI
ENCICLOPEDIA ITALIANA
The VUIth Volume is out.
The first number came out in March 1929, in quarto format, and contained over 1,000 pages, numerous and beautiful text illustrations, and 200 coloured and black and white full page plates. Since that date one volume has appeared regularly every three months. As the work will consist of 36 volumes, the whole will be issued to the public in the course of not more than nine years.
The text and illustrations of the Encyclopedia Italiana are entirely original. The Encyclopaedia is universal: that is to say it surveys the events, the men, and the ideas of all times and all races and peoples. Italy alone, among the great nations, has hitherto lacked a compendium of universal culture of this kind, and has been obliged to have recourse to foreign Encyclopaedias, which often fail to give all the information wanted on the Italian contribution to civilisation in its manifold, aspects.
Two thousand contributors, divided into fifty-five categories, are at work on the Encyclopedia Italiana under the direction of Senator Giovanni Gentile and Dr. Calogero Tumminelli. The Offices and Secretariat are established in Rome in a historical palazzo now the property of the Treccani Institute. The Institute is not a money-making concern. On this account the Enciclopedia Italiana, the most modern and most perfect Encyclopaedia of our time, costs less than any of the great foreign encyclopaedias, and it has been possible to arrange the terms of subscription to meet all pockets.
H. H. POPE PIUS XI has bestowed upon the President of the Institute, Senator Treccani, the gold medal of his Sacerdotal Jubilee in token of his approval of the Enciclopedia Italiana.
H. E. MUSSOLINI has declared that this great undertaking does honour to the Fascist Regime und promotes Italy to the front rank in this field of achievement.
H. M. the KING of the BELGIANS in a recent talk with Signor Mussolini described the Enciclopedia Italiana as the finest Encyclopaedia in the world.
On the occasion of his recent visit to Egypt, the Italian Minister of Agriculture Signor ACERBO, presented a copy of the Enciclopedia Italiana to KING FUAD as being « a most eloquent document of Italian progress and civilization ».
The directors of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY of New York regard the Enciclopedia Italiana as vastly superior to all other existing and time-honoured encyclopaedias, none of which, in their opinion, can be ranked with it.
The Enciclopedia Italiana is an essential on the book-shelves of all homes where knowledge and culture are appreciated at their proper value and is the finest present that parents can make their children.
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