8th Italy Day: Italian Libraries - Spaces of Knowledge

In his novel Il nome della rosa (1980), Umberto Eco 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 of 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!

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