[Medicina del Lavoro. 90 years of a publishing history]

The following piece is meant to widen general knowledge about La Medicina del Lavoro. This is not an analytical history with interpretations and conclusions; it is simply a narration of facts, anecdotes, and details that are often overlooked, and which taken on importance only in retrospect. It is also a pleasurable satisfaction of the author's curiosity, and above all, a tribute to those who ideated and created the journal, people, associations, and printers, thanks to whom the journal, especially during the difficult first years, was able to grow and develop into a specialized tool with a privileged position both in the history of Occupational Medicine in Italy and in the international scientific community. Perhaps the reader will find some imprecise or partial information in this piece, still it has the virtue (at least, such it is deemed) of being based only on what was written in the volumes of the journal; as a matter of choice, no other source was consulted. One needs also to add that the piece dwells prevalently upon the early years of La Medicina del Lavoro, either because they were rich in events or because so many of our current readers are well informed about the recent history of the journal. Finally, since the complete collection of 82 volumes is available to only a few (in particular there is a scarcity of the first few volumes), we have made an enclosure to integrate the bibliographical references with reproductions of some of the more relevant documents.