One is pleasantly amazed at these 81 small photo albums meticulously bound with flowered, almost childlike paper and 32 neatly arranged and subdivided binders with ‘library precision’ that make up the Cairo Fund. And the astonishment grows when, leafing through them,...
by Laura Giallombardo The ‘Manodori Sagredo Collection’ A collection of period photographs, about 1165 among positives, stereoscopic positives, stereoscopic slides, postcards and an Underwood Underwood stereoscope, make up the Manodori Sagredo Fund kept in the...
by Francesca Rocchi Since the first half of the 19th century, the shelves of the Biblioteca Casanatense have held ms. 615, a precious codex that, spanning a period of time from the end of the Middle Ages to the dawn of the Napoleonic era, bears witness to a...
by Sabina Fiorenzi Pierre Benoit’s Atlantis in the 1922 edition with René Kieffer’s binding Atlantis, the lost continent, or rather, the lost paradise. Its traces lead very far back: Plato was the first in the West to mention this myth, placing that...
The Casanatense library possesses a large number of works by architect Luigi Canina, distributed in various locations depending on the type of publication. Many of them have been digitised and are available for online consultation, all have been catalogued in SBN and...
by Angela Vicini Mastrangeli The solemn Vatican Corpus Christi procession at the time of Gregory XVI ‘There is certainly nothing in the whole world holier, more august, or more splendid than the renowned pomp and circumstance that is usually seen in the Vatican every...
