Enciclopedia Italiana
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The Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti ("Italian Encyclopaedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as Enciclopedia Treccani or simply Treccani, is an Italian encyclopedia, generally regarded as the most authoritative in that language. Their History Throughout The Ages regards Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti as one of the greatest encyclopedias , along with the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and the Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana.
The first edition was published serially between 1925 and 1936.[1] In all 35 volumes of text were published in addition to one index volume. The set contained 60,000 articles in 50 million words.[2] Each volume is approximately 1015 pages in length, and 26 supplementary volumes were published between 1938 and 2006. In 1994, the 36-volume set costs $17,000.[3]
Articles in the work are usually signed with the initials of the author. An essay entitled "The Doctrine of Fascism" appeared in the 1932 edition of the Enciclopedia Italiana credited to Benito Mussolini, although it was ghost written by Giovanni Gentile.
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- ^ "Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti." Encyclopædia Britannica. (2007)
- ^ Alfieri, G. Treccani Degli. "Enciclopedia italiana" Diccionario Literario (HORA, S.A., 2001)
- ^ Kister, Kenneth. Kister's Best Encyclopedias. (Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1994)
