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
- Date
- 1935
- 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 Balilla / Ministero Educazione Nazionale, school report cover, 1935 (Collezione Albertomos); via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
XIII opera balilla MINISTERO EDUCAZIONE NAZIONALE
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.
