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The origins of the present Italian school system can be traced back to a law of Count Gabrio Casati of 1859. Initially intended only for the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and Lombardy, its legal force was extended to all the other regions of Italy when the country was united politically in the year 1861. The fundamental educational significance of this law manifests itself in Casati’s concern with the centralization of both the school education of the Italian people and the training of a political class under the control of the State. Thus, for the first time, the traditional predominance of the Church was challenged.
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Brinkmann, G., Hörner, W. (2007). Italy. In: HÖRNER, W., DÖBERT, H., KOPP, B.V., MITTER, W. (eds) The Education Systems of Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4874-2_25
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