Olympic Games/ Summer, 1920/ Antwerp/ Nadi/ Fencing/ Italy/ - Lot 71

Olympic Games/ Summer, 1920/ Antwerp/ Nadi/ Fencing/ Italy/ USSR/ Four pieces on the Italian omnipresence at the Antwerp Games: a) three issues of "La Domenica del Corriere" with the superb drawings of Italian master Achille Beltrame (1871-1945) on the front page. Here, he's all the more inspired as he celebrates the exploits of fellow countrymen, walker Ugo Frigerio (who flies over the 3,000m) and transalpine fencers, with the fabulous brothers Aldo (1899-1965) and Nedo Nadi (1894-1940). The King of the Belgians can congratulate them warmly: between them, they win 9 medals, including eight golds !!!! Nedo has five, and as he already had one in 1912, his personal total is 6 golds....His younger brother has three of the royal metal, plus one in silver...With a harvest like this, Achille's pencil can fly off (issues from August 29 to September 5 (39 x 28 cm) for athletics, from September 12 to 19 for fencing (40 x 29 cm), 2 ex of the latter including one in average condition); b) a new schoolbook (20.5 x 15 cm), with a colored hurdler on the cover: Anversa, VII Olympiade, Quaderni di, with the Italian and Belgian flags, on the 4th cover, the saga of the Games in Italian, encircled by the flags of 20 countries, including the USSR (curiosity)