Summer Timetable

From 1 July to 15 September the Library will observe summer hours. The reading rooms will be open from Monday to Friday from 8.30 am to 4 pm; distribution and lending will end at 2.30 pm. The Monumental Hall and Museum Collections can be visited free of charge...
Ars … Oculorum voluptatis gratia

Ars … Oculorum voluptatis gratia

by Maria Francesca Migliori To the sacrosanct principle of art for art (ars gratia artis, precisely) I thought of contrasting, in a somewhat playful way, a different destination, that is “art as a function of visual enjoyment”, which is the effect produced...