8th Italy Day: Libraries as spaces of knowledge

Umberto Eco, in his novel "The Name of the Rose"(Il nome della rosa), published in 1980, linked the story of a lost medieval manuscript with mysterious deaths. Forbidden passions, criminal energies and secret knowledge characterize the events that revolve around the precious library of a medieval Benedictine abbey. To this day, Eco's novel continues to fascinate, negotiating philosophical, theological, and literary discourses of the time and stimulating research in history, art, and literature.

The eighth Italy Day at the University of Kassel broadens the view from this fictional library to real libraries in Italy as spaces of knowledge. In addition to Eco's library, which has received much attention in two ways, the rich holdings on the history of science in Brescia, the pictorial furnishings of Italian libraries and the library in the Royal Palace of Naples will be discussed.
All those interested are cordially invited to the scientific lectures from the history of art and architecture, history and literature.

Program:

14:00: Welcome
14:15: Jörg Schwarz: Umberto Eco's Libraries - Real and Fictional.
15:00 h: Pier Angelo Goffi / Lucia Mor Wuehrer: I fondi della Biblioteca di Storia delle Scienze "Carlo Viganò".

16:00 - 16:30: Break.

16:30: Jakob Luckschewitz: The Parnassus from Raffaello to Raphael. On the pictorial decoration of Italian libraries in the art of reproduction.
17:15: Federico Scarano: Libraries in and around Naples: The Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in the Royal Palace of Naples.

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Contact:

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner
FB 05 History of the Middle Ages
Tel.: 0561-804-3104
E-Mail: ibaum[at]uni-kassel.de