Discorsi Sulla Cecita from the Helen Keller Collection
Author and activist Helen Keller referred to Louis Braille as the “greatest benefactor of the sightless” because his invention brought literacy to blind individuals and enabled them to read and write with their hands. Keller, deaf and blind from early childhood, discovered the world through books. An ardent reader, she was fluent in several languages. Discorsi Sulla Cecita (Speeches on Blindness), written by Italian author Aurelio Nicolodi (1894–1950), and published in 1944, is one of the foreign-language braille books in Keller’s personal library.
Author and activist Helen Keller referred to Louis Braille as the “greatest benefactor of the sightless” because his invention brought literacy to blind individuals and enabled them to read and write with their hands. Keller, deaf and blind from early childhood, discovered the world through books. An ardent reader, she was fluent in several languages. <em>Discorsi Sulla Cecita</em> (Speeches on Blindness), written by Italian author Aurelio Nicolodi (1894–1950), and published in 1944, is one of the foreign-language braille books in Keller’s personal library.