16 October 2012. On the occasion of the official Italian celebrations for WORLD FOOD DAY in the Monumental Hall of the Library the book "The food of the cloisters. Dishes and desserts of the monastic tradition" by Angelo D'Ambrosio is presented. For our part, we...
The graphic work of Carlo Cattaneo Contemporary graphic works have been added for some years to the approximately 30,000 examples of engravings from the 16th - 19th centuries that make up the Casanatense collection, mostly the result of donations from artists...
On the occasion of Christmas in Rome we set up an iconographic exhibition. ENEA, THE PROGENITOR Troy burns. Aeneas with the old Anchises on his shoulders, Ascanius by the hand and the simulacra of Athena and the Penates clasped in her arms, flees from her city and her...
Gioachino Rossini, one of the most brilliant and best-known Italian composers, was born in Pesaro exactly 220 years ago, in a leap year, on 29 February 1792. In the Casanatense Library, in addition to a series of transcriptions of symphonies and arias taken from...
by Sabina Fiorenzi When the Tevere was scary. Since ancient times, the Tevere has been a ‘cross and delight’ for the inhabitants of Rome and its surroundings. The amenity of its banks and the pleasantness of the activities that could be exercised on them and on the...
