The Little Vidette of Lombardy, The Sardinian Drummer-Boy, From the Appennines to the Andes - these are just a few of the timeless educational short stories, summarised in this historical children's novel, that, firstly published in 1886, potently contributed to cement patriotism in the classrooms of the newborn Kingdom of Italy. Keeping together diaristic, epistolary and narrative style, Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908), huge commercial hit, both in Italy and abroad, offered to younger generations a vast collection of positive models to be inspired by, in the effort to instruct the Italians of the future to the civil virtues of heroism, charity, respect for authority. Elegant Treves edition of the 1930s, the book for sale, a clothbound hardcover with golden titles and friezes, shows inside a series of enchanting drawings by Arnaldo Ferraguti, Enrico Nardi and Giulio Aristide Sartorio, not to count 12 original full-color plates by Luigi Rossi: a real pleasure to leaf through! If the binding appears damaged at spine borders and covers' top edge – see photos -, the body of the volume, except for spread moisture halos on pages' external margin, such, anyway, as not to disrupt the enjoyability of the book, emerges in good conditions, with perfectly vivid pictures: a real piece of Italian history, proposed at an unrepeatable price!