Army-FAI Initiative

19/03/15

The Italian Army, on 21 and 22 March in collaboration with the FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano, will open the doors of the library of the “Teuliè” military school in Milan. The library houses some volumes of considerable historical and cultural interest and will also be exhibited texts that tell the Great War.

Among the works of particular interest guarded by the library, the first Napoleonic codex, works by Tasso and volumes with the engravings of Piranesi (among which, the most famous, that of the Trajan Column) stand out.

The Presidio Library, considered one of the sites of interest for the spring days of the FAI, hosted around 80.000 works mainly coming from the Chambery fund with texts dating back to the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and from the Casanova fund that includes among the thousands of works, incunabula , manuscripts and "cinquecentine".

The Military School "Teuliè" of Milan is an elite Institute of the Italian Army that allows students to achieve classical or scientific maturity and is a leading university in education, whose teaching aims to train young managers, complete and with strong cultural and social instruments.

All visitors will be accredited directly to the FAI point in Corso Italia 58, the library's headquarters, which will be active from 10.00 to 17.00 on Saturday and Sunday.

Source: Army General Staff