Opera Nazionale Balilla school report cover, Ministero Educazione Nazionale (Italy, 1932)
Dark-green cover of a pupil's report card (pagella): a tapering stack of white and black vertical bars studded with axe-blades forms a stepped pyramid or fasces-like tower above the printed words MINISTERO EDVCAZIONE NAZIONALE and OP. NAZ. 'BALILLA'. A circular office stamp is partly visible at lower left and a small designer's mark at lower right. The tell: the state's own school stationery carries the fasces as a modernist monument, so the first document a six-year-old brings home already pairs the school with the party's emblem.
Propaganda techniques used in this print
- Date
- 1932
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Opera Nazionale Balilla (youth organisation) with the Ministero dell'Educazione Nazionale, Italy
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD tag; Italian basis, URAA status not asserted)
Opera Nazionale Balilla / Ministero Educazione Nazionale, school report cover, 1932 (Collezione Albertomos); via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
MINISTERO EDVCAZIONE NAZIONALE OP. NAZ. "BALILLA"
Ministry of National Education. National Balilla Organisation.
The circular stamp at lower left is only partly visible and is not transcribed.
