This paper analyses the formation in Italy of a school system focused on the training of technical and managerial personnel in the agricultural sector. Drawing on a rich literature on the relationship between school training, social change, and economic modernisation, this study details an under-researched aspect of the formation of the national state. Italy constitutes an exemplary case study as for the reforming action of public institutions in the field of education as well as the modernising policies that concerned the rural sector of the country before the First World War. Schools of agriculture in Italy became a means of social advancement not only for a wide sector of rural society but also for the children of the artisan and commercial bourgeoisie of small urban centres. This study thereby makes a novel contribution to the ongoing debate on the development of agriculture-related professions in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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意大利农业的公共教育和专业化（1861-1914）

本文分析了意大利注重农业技术和管理人员培训的学校体系的形成。本研究借鉴了关于学校培训、社会变革和经济现代化之间关系的丰富文献，详细介绍了民族国家形成中一个尚未得到研究的方面。意大利是第一次世界大战前教育领域公共机构改革行动以及涉及该国农村部门现代化政策的典范案例。意大利的农业学校不仅成为农村社会广大阶层、也成为小城市中心的工匠和商业资产阶级的孩子们社会进步的手段。