{"id":9288,"date":"2017-04-28T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:26:31","slug":"abyssinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/abyssinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | La conquista dell&#8217;Abissinia (The conquest of Abyssinia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/abyssinia\/hyperfocal-0-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9289\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/Game-02_01md-736x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"813\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The John Hay Library has a\u00a0new acquisition on display in the second floor landing case:<\/p>\n<p><em>La conquista dell&#8217;Abissinia\/ The conquest of Abyssinia<br \/>\n<\/em>Officine dell\u2019Istituto italiano d&#8217;arti grafiche\/ Office of the Italian Institute of Graphic Arts<br \/>\nBoard game (paper and ink)<br \/>\nMilano: Carlo Erba S.A., 1936<br \/>\nBrown University Library, Special Collections<\/p>\n<p>The item\u00a0will be on display until May 31,<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">\u00a02017<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This Italian board game was created in 1936 by Officine dell\u2019Istituto italiano d&#8217;arti grafiche in Bergamo during the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in the midst of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (also referred as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War).\u00a0The game was printed to advertise products from various Italian companies while spreading colonial propaganda that applauded the expansion of the Kingdom of Italy. This piece featured a powder to make artificial mineral water by the pharmaceutical company Carlo Erba, S.A.<\/p>\n<p>Play is based on the rules of the European &#8220;game of the goose,&#8221; in which two or more players move pieces along a track of consecutively numbered spaces\u00a0by rolling one or two dice.\u00a0<em>La conquista dell&#8217;Abissinia\u00a0<\/em>is played on a color illustrated sheet against the background of a map of the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia). While not depicted, the\u00a0game pays tribute to Pietro Badoglio, 2nd Duke of Addis Abeba, and his army and their ultimate occupation of the capital of Abyssinia. It consists of 68 numbered spaces representing the Italian flag, the Red Cross, contemporary political figures, and tanks of the Italian armed forces. The goal\u00a0of the game is to reach the circle numbered 68 before any of the other players by avoiding as many obstacles as possible. It was designed to have a maximum of eight players, each equipped with a small disc representing various divisions of the Italian armed forces (Infantry, Air Force, Blackshirts, Alpine Troops, Corps of Engineers, Tank Division, Askari, or local colonial troops and Dubats or White Turbans). Directions are printed on the upper right corner of the sheet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates:<\/strong>\u00a0May 1 &#8211; May 31, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Hay Library Hours<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Second Floor, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence, RI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Hay Library has a\u00a0new acquisition on display in the second floor landing case: La conquista dell&#8217;Abissinia\/ The conquest of Abyssinia Officine dell\u2019Istituto italiano d&#8217;arti grafiche\/ Office of the Italian Institute of Graphic Arts Board game (paper and ink) Milano: Carlo Erba S.A., 1936 Brown University Library, Special Collections The item\u00a0will be on display <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/abyssinia\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | La conquista dell&#8217;Abissinia (The conquest of Abyssinia)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35,8,36,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-new-acquisitions","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}