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IL LAVORO E LA MEMORIA
Il Poligrafico a Piazza Verdi

X+112 pp. - 86 b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - gold card case - printed 2010
Italian text

WORK AND MEMORIES
Italian State Printing Works in Piazza Verdi

Texts by Giuseppe Sgarzini
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato - Libreria dello Stato - Roma

The story of the Palace in Piazza Verdi, which was the seat of the Italian State Printing Works, and of the men and women who worked there, through several photographs taken from the beginning of the XX century to about 1955.
Some photographs are also relevant to the historic seat of the Mint, in Rome in Via Principe Umberto and Via Gino Capponi.

CONTENTS

Presentation
Notes
CHAPTER I
Notice about industrial archaeology
CHAPTER II
Building industry and Town planning in Rome between 1870 and 1911
Birth of a building: The new palace and the variant to the town plan - The palace as seat of the State Audit Court - The building of the palace - Chronology - Architecture - Inside structure - The second building stage
CHAPTER III
The State Printing Works and Mint: Short historical notes - Precious publications by the Printing Works - The State Printing Works and Mint today
CHAPTER IV
The Mint
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