Meet Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo

When I spent my Erasmus some years ago in Turin, I fell in love with the city. Thanks to a friend I discovered the wonderful Museo della Scuola e del Libro per l’Infanzia, in short MUSLI. The museum consists of two major parts: one dedicated to school life (as you can tell from the pictures) and another one linked to children’s literature and illustration. The museum’s archive holds copies of seminal Italian kid comics such as il Giornalino della Domenica and Corriere dei Piccoli. In the last picture the guide is showing how Antonio Rubino’s early-twentieth-century character Quadratino was used to illustrate geometry to children.

Thanks to the Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo and the museum’s archive I can now study all the strips from Corriere dei Piccoli they conserve. Specifically, I’m researching child representation in CdP from 1908 till 1945. I have been spending some great weeks doing research at the MUSLI.

Eva