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...
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,...
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...
The Hortus Romanus by Liberato Sabbati (v. II of Ms. 4460) The publishing project proposes the printing of the second volume of the Hortus romanus, which was the protagonist of a very painful episode for the Casanatense, which occurred on June 16, 2004. During its...
Travelling through time and space in the Age of Enlightenment. Rare example of a roll of “vues d’optique”, a very particular type of printed images that, during the eighteenth century, were used in Europe for the creation of shows intended for...
