by Laura Giallombardo Definition of coat of arms. Goffredo di Crollalanza in his Heraldic-Knightly Encyclopedia defines the weapon or coat of arms as «the complex of all the figures, emblems, patches, enamels, ornaments, marks of honor that serve to make known the...
by Maria Francesca Migliori The Dr. ssa M. Francesca Migliori carried out the voluntary service at the Library for a long period, during which she carried out the study on the illuminated incunabula, the subject of her thesis at the Vatican School of Library Science...
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 our part, we...
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...
