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Author : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vatican Library written by Biblioteca apostolica vaticana and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Luisa Ambrosini
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760701256
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Secret Archives of the Vatican written by Maria Luisa Ambrosini and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300054422
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Rome Reborn written by Anthony Grafton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vatican Library contains the richest collection of western manuscripts and early printed books in the world, and its holdings have both reflected and helped to shape the intellectual development of Europe. One of the central institutions of Italian Renaissance culture, it has served since its origin in the mid-fifteenth century as a center of research for topics as diverse as the early history of the city of Rome and the structure of the universe. This extraordinarily beautiful book which contains over 200 color illustrations, introduces the reader to the Vatican Library and examines in particular its development during the Renaissance. Distinguished scholars discuss the Library's holdings and the historical circumstances of its growth, presenting a fascinating cast of characters - popes, artists, collectors, scholars, and scientists - who influenced how the Library evolved. The authors examine subjects ranging from Renaissance humanism to Church relations with China and the Islamic world to the status of medicine and the life sciences in antiquity and during the Renaissance. Their essays are supported by a lavish display of maps, books, prints, and other examples of the Library's collection, including the Palatine Virgil (a fifth-century manuscript), a letter from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, and an autographed poem by Petrarch. The book serves as the catalog for a major exhibition at the Library of Congress that presents a selection of the Vatican Library's magnificent treasures.
Author : Luca Becchetti
Publisher : Exhibitions International
ISBN 13 : 9789088810077
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Vatican Secret Archives written by Luca Becchetti and published by Exhibitions International. This book was released on 2009 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vatican Secret Archives have fuelled people's imagination for centuries. This is largely due to its incomparable long and interesting history. Today, the entire documentation kept in the Vatican Secret Archives occupies 85 kilometres of bookshelves and is constantly growing. It covers a continued chronological space of over 800 years. Moreover, its unique location, the majestic documentary treasures and the limited access contribute to this aura of mystery. The shroud of secrecy that has always surrounded this important cultural institution of the Holy See, due to the allusions to inaccessible secrets, as well as to the publicity it has always enjoyed in literature and in the media, makes this publication even more attractive. And now, for the first time, a publisher was allowed to walk around this wonderful location without any restrictions. The result is a magnificent book with impressive and atmospheric illustrations. Take an unforgettable walk past the most exceptional places and documents in these secret archives, including reading rooms that are only open to academia, as well as rooms that remain closed to the public, some of which are decorated with gorgeous 16th and 17th century frescos, while others accommodate several thousands of documents. You will be able to discover more than 100 of these documents in this book. Specialists of the Vatican Secret Archives have selected these documents and provided each one with a precise explanation. It is a careful selection of documents that show the richness of the Vatican Archives' contents. A highly appealing, unique and attractive book, for a large audience as well as for the academic!
Author : Pier C. Decembrio
Publisher : Turner Publications Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781570361012
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book And to Every Beast written by Pier C. Decembrio and published by Turner Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archivio vaticano
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Vatican Archives written by Archivio vaticano and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vatican Archives provides the first comprehensive guide to one of the richest archival sources for the history of the Western world. Organized into related agency groups, it includes approximately 500 entries that describe the purpose and workings of each administrative agency of the Vatican and the official records it produces-- the very records that now constitute the archives. Serving as a research tool that provides a systematic and previously unavailable overview of the archives, this book enhances and expediates access by scholars in a broad range of disciplines.
Author : Grzegorz Górny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621643180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Vatican Secret Archives written by Grzegorz Górny and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Investigative stories behind the most controversial events in the Church's history, for example: the Knights Templar trial, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Galileo Galilei trial, and Pius XII's attitude towards the Holocaust"--
Author : Hubert Wolf
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674050815
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Pope and Devil written by Hubert Wolf and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives--discoveries that clarify the relations between National Socialism and the Vatican. He vividly illuminates the inner workings of the Vatican.
Author : Ronald E. Pepin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823228924
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Vatican Mythographers written by Ronald E. Pepin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted, and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists. In terms consonant with Christian purposes, they elucidated the fabulous narratives and underlying themes in the works of Ovid, Virgil, Statius, and other poets of antiquity. In so doing, the Vatican Mythographers provided handbooks that included descriptions of ancient rites and customs, curious etymologies, and, above all, moral allegories. Thus we learn that Bacchus is a naked youth who rides a tiger because drunkenness is never mature, denudes us of possessions, and begets ferocity; or that Ulysses, husband of Penelope, passed by the monstrous Scylla unharmed because a wise man bound to chastity overcomes lust. The extensive collection of myths illustrates how this material was used for moral lessons. To date, the works of the Vatican Mythographers have remained inaccessible to scholars and students without a good working knowledge of Latin. The translation thus fulfills a scholarly void. It is prefaced by an introduction that discusses the purposes of the Vatican Mythographers, the influences on them, and their place in medieval and Renaissance mythography. Of course, it also entertains with a host of stories whose undying appeal captivates, charms, inspires, instructs, and sometimes horrifies us. The book should have wide appeal for a whole range of university courses involving myth.
Author : Monica Langwe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789163723797
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Limp Bindings from the Vatican Library written by Monica Langwe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Posner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439109869
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book God's Bankers written by Gerald Posner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “deeply researched” exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican (Chicago Tribune). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Telling the story through two hundred years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers is a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from popes and cardinals to financiers and mobsters to kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that not only clarify the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. Posner also assesses Pope Francis’s potential to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power. “Reads like a sprawling novel, full of complex characters and surprising twists. . . . Readers interested in issues involving religion and international finance will find Posner’s work a compelling read.” —Library Journal “An extraordinarily intricate tale of intrigue, corruption and organized criminality. . . . Posner’s gifts as a reporter and storyteller are most vividly displayed in a series of lurid chapters on the American archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the arch-Machiavellian who ran the Vatican Bank from 1971-1989.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Filip Malesevic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110720655
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Inventing the Council inside the Apostolic Library written by Filip Malesevic and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries.
Author : Edward Poulson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The End of the Papacy ... written by Edward Poulson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leen Spruit
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004210571
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza’s Ethica written by Leen Spruit and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill authors Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro discovered the original manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica" in the Vatican library. This spectacular discovery attracted a lot of media attention. This edition will be published in Brill's Texts and Sources on Intellectual History (BSIH) in August. The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza’s Ethics, is the only surviving manuscript of this work and constitutes a document of great importance, as it predates the publication of the Opera Posthuma, which appeared in the first months of 1678.
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Author : Western Reserve University. School of Library Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The School of Library Science [Catalogue] written by Western Reserve University. School of Library Science and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Herndon Wright
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520072404
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Vatican Vergil written by David Herndon Wright and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Rome around A.D. 400, the Vatican Vergil is the most famous and the most attractive illustrated book surviving from classical antiquity. David H. Wright introduces this masterpiece of late antique art and shows why it is such an impressive example of the new form of book, the codex, that replaced the traditional papyrus roll and permitted more elaborate illustrations. Here are thirty-two of the most interesting illustrations from the Vatican Vergil, reprinted in full color from the 1980 facsimile published in Graz, Austria, in collaboration with the Vatican Library. Facing each reproduction is the appropriate text from Vergil, in Latin and in English, together with explanatory comments. Wright discusses how the manuscript was made, describing the style of the capital script and of the illustrations as well as their sources in older classical traditions. He examines the Vatican Vergil as an example of the revival of classical culture in pagan circles in Rome at a time when Christian authority was systematically suppressing pagan religion. Finally, he surveys the "afterlife" of the codex, tracing how the work was studied and copied first in the Carolingian era and then in the Italian Renaissance. All the illustrations not reproduced in color are given at full size in black and white in a concluding list of the illustrations that have survived in this unique masterpiece. Made in Rome around A.D. 400, the Vatican Vergil is the most famous and the most attractive illustrated book surviving from classical antiquity. David H. Wright introduces this masterpiece of late antique art and shows why it is such an impressive example of the new form of book, the codex, that replaced the traditional papyrus roll and permitted more elaborate illustrations. Here are thirty-two of the most interesting illustrations from the Vatican Vergil, reprinted in full color from the 1980 facsimile published in Graz, Austria, in collaboration with the Vatican Library. Facing each reproduction is the appropriate text from Vergil, in Latin and in English, together with explanatory comments. Wright discusses how the manuscript was made, describing the style of the capital script and of the illustrations as well as their sources in older classical traditions. He examines the Vatican Vergil as an example of the revival of classical culture in pagan circles in Rome at a time when Christian authority was systematically suppressing pagan religion. Finally, he surveys the "afterlife" of the codex, tracing how the work was studied and copied first in the Carolingian era and then in the Italian Renaissance. All the illustrations not reproduced in color are given at full size in black and white in a concluding list of the illustrations that have survived in this unique masterpiece.
Author : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006280101
Total Pages : 1269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Holy Bible with Illustrations from the Vatican Library written by Biblioteca apostolica vaticana and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
