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title: Opera Balilla school report cover, Anno XIII, Ministero Educazione Nazionale (Italy, 1934 to 1935)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/opera-balilla-pagella-copertina-xiii-1935/
description: Maroon-on-buff cover of a pupil's report card (pagella). The title 'Opera Balilla' runs vertically up the left edge with the era number XIII.
section: Collection
---

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# Opera Balilla school report cover, Anno XIII, Ministero Educazione Nazionale (Italy, 1934 to 1935)

Maroon-on-buff cover of a pupil's report card (pagella). The title 'Opera Balilla' runs vertically up the left edge with the era number XIII; two parallelogram banners, each bearing a stylised eagle, are carried on poles topped by fixed bayonets, and a heavy block below reads MINISTERO EDUCAZIONE NAZIONALE. A handwritten price or number ('L. 1.') is visible at top right. The tell: the document every child brings home is dressed in the visual language of standards and bayonets, so schooling and the youth organisation's military styling are one object.

## Propaganda techniques used in this print

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Repetition and the illusory truth effect](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/repetition/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
XIII opera balilla

MINISTERO
EDUCAZIONE
NAZIONALE
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Year XIII. Balilla Organisation. Ministry of National Education.
```

'L. 1.' written in ink at the top right is not printed text and is not transcribed as such; the lettering is set in vertical and horizontal display type as shown.

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