{"id":10175,"date":"2026-03-12T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/?page_id=10175"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:30:42","slug":"the-pearls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bnuto.cultura.gov.it\/en\/the-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Pearls\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blonde,&nbsp;tall, sensitive and&nbsp;proud, strong-willed&nbsp;without&nbsp;being&nbsp;harsh&nbsp;and with a sincere&nbsp;intellectual&nbsp;curiosity, Margaret&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;great&nbsp;charm with&nbsp;which, once&nbsp;she&nbsp;became&nbsp;queen,&nbsp;she&nbsp;was&nbsp;able&nbsp;to&nbsp;strongly&nbsp;influence&nbsp;the&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;of&nbsp;her&nbsp;husband&nbsp;and&nbsp;his&nbsp;court.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the turn of the 19th&nbsp;century,&nbsp;through&nbsp;the&nbsp;words&nbsp;of&nbsp;journalists&nbsp;and&nbsp;writers, the&nbsp;phenomenon&nbsp;of \u2018Margheritism\u2019&nbsp;was&nbsp;born: from the fashion&nbsp;weekly&nbsp;to the&nbsp;bonnet, from the pizza to the cake, from the&nbsp;dress&nbsp;to the alpine&nbsp;hut,&nbsp;everything&nbsp;spoke&nbsp;of the queen,&nbsp;symbol&nbsp;of moral&nbsp;regeneration&nbsp;and&nbsp;object&nbsp;of&nbsp;admiration&nbsp;for&nbsp;her&nbsp;elegance, smile and&nbsp;regal&nbsp;grace. Margaret&nbsp;showed&nbsp;exceptional&nbsp;talent and&nbsp;versatility&nbsp;in&nbsp;representative&nbsp;activities,&nbsp;well&nbsp;aware&nbsp;of the&nbsp;fascination&nbsp;she&nbsp;exerted&nbsp;on&nbsp;her&nbsp;interlocutors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;section&nbsp;displays&nbsp;a small&nbsp;portion&nbsp;of the books&nbsp;offered&nbsp;to the Queen and&nbsp;accompanied&nbsp;by&nbsp;dedications&nbsp;from the&nbsp;authors.&nbsp;We&nbsp;are&nbsp;facing&nbsp;an&nbsp;astonishing&nbsp;variety:&nbsp;writers&nbsp;of&nbsp;various&nbsp;nationalities&nbsp;and&nbsp;belonging&nbsp;to the&nbsp;most&nbsp;distant&nbsp;fields, from science to medicine, from&nbsp;poetry&nbsp;to&nbsp;geography,&nbsp;all&nbsp;wanted&nbsp;to&nbsp;establish&nbsp;a&nbsp;privileged&nbsp;link with the&nbsp;sovereign. So&nbsp;many&nbsp;volumes&nbsp;also&nbsp;constitute, with&nbsp;their&nbsp;trove&nbsp;of images, an&nbsp;important&nbsp;witness&nbsp;of the&nbsp;history&nbsp;of&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;in&nbsp;which&nbsp;photography&nbsp;is&nbsp;set&nbsp;in a&nbsp;context&nbsp;of&nbsp;references&nbsp;to the&nbsp;history&nbsp;of&nbsp;landscape,&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;and the&nbsp;construction&nbsp;of the&nbsp;territory, with&nbsp;its&nbsp;baggage&nbsp;of&nbsp;customs,&nbsp;traditions&nbsp;and&nbsp;transformations.&nbsp;Variety&nbsp;and&nbsp;richness&nbsp;are the common denominator of the \u201cMargherita style\u201d&nbsp;that&nbsp;had&nbsp;so&nbsp;much&nbsp;weight&nbsp;in the fashion of the time: book&nbsp;bindings&nbsp;as&nbsp;well&nbsp;as&nbsp;clothes&nbsp;become&nbsp;the&nbsp;calling&nbsp;card with&nbsp;which&nbsp;to&nbsp;adorn&nbsp;a&nbsp;precious&nbsp;content. Books&nbsp;featured&nbsp;in&nbsp;editorial&nbsp;bindings&nbsp;show the&nbsp;great&nbsp;imagination&nbsp;and&nbsp;search&nbsp;for beauty&nbsp;even&nbsp;in common&nbsp;objects: English,&nbsp;German, French&nbsp;texts,&nbsp;dressed&nbsp;according&nbsp;to the&nbsp;same&nbsp;rules,&nbsp;evidence&nbsp;an&nbsp;international&nbsp;taste&nbsp;capable&nbsp;of&nbsp;attracting&nbsp;all&nbsp;social&nbsp;classes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blonde,&nbsp;tall, sensitive and&nbsp;proud, strong-willed&nbsp;without&nbsp;being&nbsp;harsh&nbsp;and with a sincere&nbsp;intellectual&nbsp;curiosity, Margaret&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;great&nbsp;charm with&nbsp;which, once&nbsp;she&nbsp;became&nbsp;queen,&nbsp;she&nbsp;was&nbsp;able&nbsp;to&nbsp;strongly&nbsp;influence&nbsp;the&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;of&nbsp;her&nbsp;husband&nbsp;and&nbsp;his&nbsp;court.&nbsp;&nbsp; At the turn of the 19th&nbsp;century,&nbsp;through&nbsp;the&nbsp;words&nbsp;of&nbsp;journalists&nbsp;and&nbsp;writers, the&nbsp;phenomenon&nbsp;of \u2018Margheritism\u2019&nbsp;was&nbsp;born: from the fashion&nbsp;weekly&nbsp;to the&nbsp;bonnet, from the pizza to the cake, from the&nbsp;dress&nbsp;to the alpine&nbsp;hut,&nbsp;everything&nbsp;spoke&nbsp;of the queen,&nbsp;symbol&nbsp;of moral&nbsp;regeneration&nbsp;and&nbsp;object&nbsp;of&nbsp;admiration&nbsp;for&nbsp;her&nbsp;elegance, smile and&nbsp;regal&nbsp;grace. 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