Educating about country life. The private elementary schools of Montesca and Rovigliano

Abstract

Alice Hallgarten Franchetti (New York, 1874-Leysin, 1911) played a leading role in
the Italian education of the early twentieth century. At the beginning of the century,
supported by her husband, Leopoldo Franchetti (Livorno, 1847-Roma, 1917), Baron
and Senator of the Kingdom, she wanted to change the reality of cultural exclusion of the poorest class, opening the two rural schools of Montesca and Rovigliano, dedicated at free of charge education for farmers’s children in Umbria.