The “Touring Club Italiano” and the Pride for the Army from 1908 to 1914

Abstract

Announced on December 1907 and completed in January of the following year, the Touring Club Italiano update aesthetic and substance of its official propaganda organ: “Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano”. In a detailed analysis of the review we want demonstrate that with this aesthetic update there is a tacit, but clear, change of direction of the whole association that opens to a nationalistic thought.

Keywords

• Touring Club Italiano
• army
• nationalism
• military industry
• technological progress