The exhibition was accompanied by a scholarly catalogue published by Bardi Edizioni, bringing together essays on the relationship between tradition and modernity, the reception of the Renaissance in early twentieth-century art and the birth of Italian design culture in the 1920s.

The essays include:

Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Preface;
Roberto Antonelli, Introduction;
Guicciardo Sassoli de’ Bianchi Strozzi, From the avant-garde to tradition. On the reception of the Italian Renaissance in the art of the 1910s;
Roberto Antonelli, Virginia Lapenta, Guicciardo Sassoli de’ Bianchi Strozzi, The historic centenaries of Leonardo, Raphael and Dante in the aesthetic climate of the immediate post-war period (1919-1921);
Guicciardo Sassoli de’ Bianchi Strozzi, At the roots of “made in Italy”. Design thinking in magazines, proto-design and architecture in the 1920s.