How is it possible that, in an age of absolute media visibility and the unstoppable flow of information that surrounds us, treasures are literally hidden just a few steps away from us? And what if, even if we ‘knew’ them, this were still not enough to ‘see’ them? This is not a riddle from a… Continue reading The ‘invisible’ right before your eyes
Author: Paolo Scattolin
Incredible how you can / See right through me
As you may already know from the post titled “A series of unpredictable events”, the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona, the oldest library still operating in the Western world, houses a significant number of palimpsests – i.e. manuscripts whose first layer of writing was scraped to allow their reuse – some in Latin, others in Greek.… Continue reading Incredible how you can / See right through me
A series of unpredictable events…
The doctoral students who will study Greek marginalia and palimpsests in Verona will owe their (hopefully positive) experience to a series of unpredictable events in the professional life of yours truly. My interest in commentaries on the texts of classical Greek literature dates back to my Master’s thesis, in which I worked on Heliodorus’ esoteric… Continue reading A series of unpredictable events…