I necrologi dei maestri elementari italiani: da Spoon River a fonti inedite per la storia della scuola e dell’educazione

The paper deals with some issues opened by a recent research conducted by Anna Ascenzi and Roberto Sani, full professors of History of Education at the University of Macerata (Italy), in order to highlight how the death notices published by some Italian primary teachers’ reviews could be considered as new sources for studying the changes of the primary teacher’s profession between XIX and XX centuries. Their proposal could be interpreted as the attempt of spreading a new historiographical paradigm in Italy, according to the current development of the «School Memories» trend, introduced in Spain at the beginning of the XXI century by the historians Agustín Escolano Benito and Antonio Viñao Frago and recently celebrated in an International Symposium in Seville (22-23 September, 2015).