Fare i conti con la modernità. La nascita delle editrici La Scuola e Morcelliana e la cultura cattolica a Brescia

An in-depth itinerary of research centered around three key moments that define the historical development of Catholicism in Brescia between the late 19th century and World War II: the founding of the pedagogical journal Scuola Italiana Moderna (1893); the establishment of the publishing house La Scuola (1904) and its growing success in the following decades; and the launch of the Morcelliana publishing house (1925). These milestones reveal the unique context in which, in Brescia, between the 19th and 20th centuries, enterprise, labor, and capital converged in financial and cultural initiatives of both provincial and national significance. These efforts continued to strengthen—even during periods not always favorable to the construction of a social market economy, and despite 19th-century ideological resistance and the world wars—thanks to the dynamic nature of local Catholicism (characterized by social openness and dialogue with modernity), represented by figures such as Giuseppe Tovini, Giorgio Montini, Luigi Bazoli, Giovanni Battista Montini, Fausto Minelli, Vittorino Chizzolini, Mario Bendiscioli, and Angelo Zammarchi.