Verona’s Hidden Treasures: A Glimpse into the Capitolare’s Ancient Schoolbooks and Palimpsests

Ever since I was a student, I had been fascinated by the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona. The library stood out in the textbook on the transmission of the classics we read at the University of Copenhagen in the 1980s, Scribes and Scholars. I soon got interested in the early humanists, not least Petrarch and Boccaccio… Continue reading Verona’s Hidden Treasures: A Glimpse into the Capitolare’s Ancient Schoolbooks and Palimpsests