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...
interview with Paolo Francesco Magnanti The second volume of Liberato Sabbati’s Hortus Romanus (Ms. 4460), created in 1770, was stolen on 16 June 2004, during its exhibition at the Vittoriano, on the occasion of the exhibition “Le radici della Nazione”. The...
by Valeria Viscido The Biblioteca Casanatense conserves 23 registers of readers, from February 1872 to October 1898, with Ms. Cas. 493/1-23: the registers pass through a decisive moment that joins the 20th century and, more recently, the present day. Looking more...
by Martina Pugliesi Among the treasures of the Biblioteca Casanatense is the magnificent ms. 233. The large-format codex (425 x 305 mm) contains a Universal History in French, from the creation of man to the war between Caesar and Pompey. Written in French bastard...
by Maria Lucia Violo Prints for the Octavaries of the Dead of the Arciconfraternita dell’Orazione e Morte of Rome That of the sacred representations for the Octave of the Dead, the eight-day period of sermons and other religious services that began on 1...
by Francesco Volpi One of the peculiarities that distinguish the holdings of the Casanatense Library is undoubtedly the conspicuous collection of approximately 80,000 Edicts and Proclamations, issued and published by the Ecclesiastical State for the most part, by the...
