Treccani

The Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti (Italian for "Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as Treccani for its developer Giovanni Treccani or Enciclopedia Italiana, is an Italian-language encyclopaedia. The publication Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages regards it as one of the greatest encyclopaedias along with the Encyclopædia Britannica and others.[1]

Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti
Treccani
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
GenreEncyclopedia
PublisherTreccani
Publication date
First published serially between 1929 and 1936
Media typePrint
Websitewww.treccani.it
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History

The first edition was published serially between 1929 and 1936.[2] In all, 35 volumes were published, plus one index volume. The set contained 60,000 articles and 50 million words.[3] Each volume is approximately 1,015 pages, and 37 supplementary volumes were published between 1938 and 2015. The director was Giovanni Gentile and redactor-in-chief Antonino Pagliaro.

Most of the articles are signed with the initials of the author. An essay credited to Benito Mussolini entitled "The Doctrine of Fascism" was included in the 1932 edition of the encyclopedia, although it was ghost-written by Gentile.[4]

The articles are now available online for free.

See also

References
  1. Collison, Robert (1964). Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages. New York & London: Hafner Publishing Company. p. 207.
  2. "Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti". Archived 28 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Encyclopædia Britannica. (2007)
  3. Treccani Degli Alfieri, Giovanni. "Enciclopedia italiana" Diccionario Literario (Hora, S.A., 2001)
  4. Kraus, Carl; Obermair, Hannes (2019). Mythen der Diktaturen. Kunst in Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus – Miti delle dittature. Arte nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo. Landesmuseum für Kultur- und Landesgeschichte Schloss Tirol. pp. 56–57, with facsimile of the article. ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3.
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