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Inventing the Council inside the Apostolic Library : The Organization of Curial Erudition in Late Cinquecento Rome / Filip Malesevic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Saur, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XX, 544 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110720631
  • 9783110720679
  • 9783110720655
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 027.045634
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 A New Space of Christian Wisdom inside the Apostolic Palace -- 2 The Ceremonial Blueprint of a Franciscan Pontificate -- 3 The Pope’s Seraphs and the Landscape of Curial Erudition -- 4 Creating a Sistine Workshop inside the Apostolic Palace -- 5 Epilogue. The Conspicuousness of Tridentine Theology in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana -- Documents -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 A New Space of Christian Wisdom inside the Apostolic Palace -- 2 The Ceremonial Blueprint of a Franciscan Pontificate -- 3 The Pope’s Seraphs and the Landscape of Curial Erudition -- 4 Creating a Sistine Workshop inside the Apostolic Palace -- 5 Epilogue. The Conspicuousness of Tridentine Theology in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana -- Documents -- Bibliography -- Index

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The book provides a detailed study of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and its interior decoration which today still remains inaccessible to the ordinary visit. Placing the history of the Vatican Library in the larger context of how erudition was administered and organized within the Early Modern Roman Curia, the book will also take into consideration how the Vaticana was used in contrast to other newly founded libraries.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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