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
Tag: Biblioteca Capitolare
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
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…