School Uniform: Italian Military School

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Reports exists of military schools in Italy in the 18th century, well before the founding of modern Italy. HBC has, however, little information on Italian military schools available yet.

I have noted the institution of a military school on the island of Corfù in the eighteenth century. In 1728 Johann Maria von Schulemburg proposed to the Venetian Senate the establishment of a military school which, in addition to the obvious advantage of improving military training from a technical point of view, would also foster a deeper relationship between the local elite and the administration of Venice. Schulemburg wrote of the urgent need to create technicians and experts "documented in military mathematics, whence they will conduct themselves with reason and sound principles, understanding the effect of causes. For this essential objective it is necessary to institute a military school in which one can learn the elements of these mathematics and later, fortification, artillery, and the art of navigation; thus also 10 or 12 of these officials will be trained, and brought up by the fortifications of Corfù and schooled by me, they will already be skilled in drawing and will promise greater profit".


Careful, clicking on these will exit you from the Boys' Historical Clothing web site, but several are highly recommended

  • Apertures Press International Project: Pictures at schools in different countries and a book on British schools
  • Apertures Press New Zealand book: New book on New Zealand schools in progress
  • School Uniform Web Site: Informative review of British school uniforms with some excellent photographs
  • British Preparatory Schools: A photographic book depicting life at British preparatory schools during the 1980s. Most of the schools are English or Scottish, but schools in Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ulster are also included. The pictures show the uniforms worn at many different schools.
  • Information: Information about school uniforms in America


    Christopher Wagner

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    Created: November 27, 1998
    Last updated: October 27, 1998