by Anna Alberati An autograph of Wagner in the Library. Homage to Richard Wagner on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth (Leipzig, 22 May 1813 – Venice, 13 February 1883) Wagner, Richard [Siegfried-Idyll. Symphonic poem.: orch. E major. WWV 103] Siegfried-Idyll...
In 1987, a large iconographic exhibition entitled In Praesepio: images of the Nativity in engravings from the 16th-19th centuries was set up in Casanatense, curated by Iolanda Olivieri and Angela Vicini Mastrangeli. On that occasion, 300 prints taken from the...
16 October 2012. On the occasion of the official Italian celebrations for WORLD FOOD DAY in the Monumental Hall of the Library the book “The food of the cloisters. Dishes and desserts of the monastic tradition” by Angelo D’Ambrosio is presented. For...
The graphic work of Carlo Cattaneo Contemporary graphic works have been added for some years to the approximately 30,000 examples of engravings from the 16th – 19th centuries that make up the Casanatense collection, mostly the result of donations from artists...
On the occasion of Christmas in Rome we set up an iconographic exhibition. ENEA, THE PROGENITOR Troy burns. Aeneas with the old Anchises on his shoulders, Ascanius by the hand and the simulacra of Athena and the Penates clasped in her arms, flees from her city and her...
Gioachino Rossini, one of the most brilliant and best-known Italian composers, was born in Pesaro exactly 220 years ago, in a leap year, on 29 February 1792. In the Casanatense Library, in addition to a series of transcriptions of symphonies and arias taken from...
