The Golden Pages

The Golden Pages

The Casanatense Missal (ms. 1909) and the Bimillenary of Nijmegen The initiative of the Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen to celebrate the second millennium of the birth of the oldest Dutch city with various cultural events has seen the revival and study of the golden...
The sword, the cross and the scimitar

The sword, the cross and the scimitar

by Anna Alloro                                             Crusader expeditions If it is true that the Crusade, considered as a historical event concatenated with other historical events, is presented as the continuation of the war against Islam and is framed within...
Swimming between sacred shores

Swimming between sacred shores

by Sabina Fiorenzi Water sports in the Tiber […] Rome was born from water, there is no doubt about it: Aeneas, a refugee from Troy, comes from the sea; Rome was founded by Romulus, who together with his twin was saved from the waters of the river in which he was...
The night grew and the moon by the light…

The night grew and the moon by the light…

by Anna Alberati Profane cantatas and baroque images The Casanatense Library preserves among its most precious and rare collections a collection of manuscripts that are very important for the history of music, in particular for the history of Roman music around the...
Prosit!

Prosit!

by Annamaria Torroncelli Taverns and wine in Rome between the late 19th and early 20th centuries October, harvest time. We offer our readers a tour of some wine places, the taverns of the city of Rome, which in the past centuries were widespread throughout the city...
Romantic ballet: Carlo de Blasis

Romantic ballet: Carlo de Blasis

by Anna Alberati This Elementary, theoretical-practical treatise on the art of dance is the first Italian translation (made in 1830 by Pietro Campilli and printed in Forlì by Tipografia Bordandini) of the Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l’art de la danse...