Medicine in the 17th century through the books of the Casanatense Library[from the preface by Prof. Luciana Rita Angeletti to the Catalogue of the Exhibition of the same name] the image gallery Seventeenth-century medicine had a status of great uncertainty....
by Iolanda Olivieri and Angela Vicini Mastrangeli Images of the Nativity in Engravings from the 16th to the 19th Centuries The Nativity is one of the themes that has enjoyed the greatest fortune and diffusion in the field of figurative arts, lending itself to sacred...
by Margherita Palumbo Inquisition and book censorship in the collection of Edicts and Proclamations The opening to scholars in 1998 of the Historical Archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has contributed to a profound renewal of studies on the...
by Iolanda Olivieri A 19th century fictionalized botany book After a long winter, this is for our navigators the wish for a warm spring, as light as the work from which the images you observe are taken, delightful, bizarre, typically nineteenth-century. Les fleures...
by Anna Alberati Tournaments, jousts and ballets on horseback We will talk about tournaments, jousts and ballets on horseback fought and staged in the period from 1561 to 1690 in various Italian and foreign cities: Bologna, Ferrara, Florence, Mantua, Milan, Modena,...
by Renata Procacci Women in the stories of travellers, conquistadors and missionaries at the time of the first overseas expeditions : Until the year 1492, opportunities to get to know peoples and cultures other than their own had been rare for Europeans. Merchants and...
