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Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 71-83

  Gramsci, Antonio ^a  

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References (10)

1. in this instance, "sciences" (scienze in the original Italian) is used in the sense of "branches of knowledge."
2. In Notebook 9, §119, Gramsci remarks that the "Dalton method is nothing other than an extension to secondary schools of the methods of study followed in Italian universities where the student is left completely free to study on his own."
3. Gramsci is alluding to a distinction made by Giambattista Vico in La scienza ,mova (1725);
4. for example, in 137: "Men who do not know what is tne of things take care to hold fast to what is certain."
5. For a complete English translation, see The New Science of Giambattista Vico, trans. Thomas G. Bergin and Max H. Fisch (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984).
6. The Casati Educational Law (named after Vittorio Emanuele II's minister Gabrio Casati), enacted in 1859, established for the first time a comprehensive and centralized system of public education in Piedmont and Lombardy. After unification, the provisions and regulations of the "Casati Act" (as it was also known) were made to apply to the whole country. Although it underwent some modifications over the years, the Casati Law remained the basis of the Italian educational system until it was replaced by the Gentile Reform in 1923.
7. For Gramsci's critique of Benedetto Croce's "dialectic of distincts" see, especially, Notebook 10.
8. "Barbara" and "Bdràlipton" were terms used by students as mnemonic devices for memorizing different types of syllogism in classical logic.
9. The first issue of the weekly L 'Online Nuovo, co-founded by Gramsci, appeared on May 1, 1919. On the front page it displayed the slogan: "Educate yourselves because we'll need all your intelligence. Rouse yourselves because we need all your enthusiasm. Organize yourselves because we need all your strength." Within a year its print run grew to about 5,ooo and was circulated mostly in Turin and the rest of Piedmont. In January 1921, L'Ordine Nuovo started appearing as a daily. It was shut down in December 1922 following a series of violent attacks and repressive measures by fascist squads and the security forces aimed at intimidating communists and socialists in Turin.
10. Scattered Notes and Jottings for a Group of Essays on the History of the Intellectuals," from Notebook 12, translated from Antonio Grarnsci, Ojiaderni del carcere, 4 vols., ed. Valentino Gerratana (Turin: Einaudi, 1975), 1514-1551.