by Anna Alberati An example of baroque theatre-show A rare text, purchased by the Casanatense Library in the year 2000, which is therefore added to the important theatrical collection already present in the Library: L’Adamo, a sacred representation, but it seems like...
by Gianluca D'Elia Polish Iconography: The Wolynski Fund Print Collection The Artur Wolynski Collection (1844-1893) at the Casanatense Library in Rome was founded in 1888 by the will of the Polish scholar of the same name with the intention of creating a real Polish...
by Alessandro Sanvito, chess history scholar Brief Notes on the Universe or The Millennial History of Chess the images illustrating the editorial are taken from Ruy Lopez de Segura The Game of Chess again translated into Italian by Gio. Domenico Tarsia. Venice, 1584...
Life / Death / Rebirth: Myths and Rituals in the Changing Seasons According to the theories supported by James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, the spectacle of the great changes that annually alternate in nature has always strongly impressed the minds of men, pushing...
The Valois Codex, the Gospel of the Dauphin of France, ms 2020 of the Casanatense Library On February 24, 1525, the King of France, Francis I of Valois-Angoulême, was defeated in Pavia by Charles V of Habsburg. “All is lost except honor” is the famous phrase that the...
