This essay by Professor d'Alonzo—holder of the chair in Special Education and the Pedagogy of Marginalization and Integration at the Catholic University of Milan—belongs to a medical-psychological-pedagogical series, yet it offers something for readers well beyond the education field. D'Alonzo recovers texts from major thinkers who, over the past century, "showed the way toward innovative and valid paths for people with disabilities," demonstrating their foundational role in educational strategies aimed at including disabled people. Flip through these pages and you'll find remarkable writings by figures like Maria Montessori, Augusto Romagnoli, Don Carlo Gnocchi, Helen Keller, Lev S. Vygotsky, and many other pedagogists now gone but still capable of making us think and guiding us toward integration.
Cristina Tersigni, 2008