The Class of Greek and Latin Studies (Classis Graecolatina) was officially established on November 25, 2010 with the appointment of the Director, the Academic Secretary and the seven Founding Academicians.
At present (2018) it includes 25 Academicians. For the most part they are scholars in the philological, literary and palaeographic disciplines in the classical, medieval and Byzantine fields, above all concerned with the patrimony of texts preserved in the Ambrosiana.
The work of the activities of this Class are published in the “Ambrosiana Graecolatina”
Chancellor
S.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, Archbishop of Milan
President
mons. Marco Ballarini, Prefect of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Vice President
mons. Marco Navoni, Deputy Prefect della Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Director
msgr. Federico Gallo, Director of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Executive Council
Carla Castelli
Paolo Chiesa
Stefano Martinelli Tempesta
Carlo Maria Mazzucchi
Marco Petoletti
Antonietta Porro
Massimo Rivoltella
Academic Secretary
Gabriella Orlandi
Academicians
Laura Biondi (Università degli Studi di Milano);
W. Martin Bloomer (University of Notre Dame);
Marco Buonocore (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana);
Mario Cantilena (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Carla Castelli (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Annaclara Cataldi Palau (University of London);
Paolo Chiesa (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Mariarosa Cortesi (Università degli Studi di Pavia);
Federico Gallo (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana);
Michael Lapidge (University of Cambridge);
Domenico Lassandro (Università degli Studi di Bari);
Luigi Lehnus (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Stefano Martinelli Tempesta (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Carlo Maria Mazzucchi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Carla Maria Monti (Università Cattolica del S. Cuore di Milano);
Claudia Montuschi (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana);
Marco Petoletti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Filippomaria Pontani (Università Ca’ Foscari);
Antonietta Porro (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano);
Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge);
Massimo Rivoltella (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)
Silvia Rizzo (Sapienza – Università di Roma);
Antonio Sartori (Università degli Studi di Milano);
Chiara Torre (Università degli Studi di Milano);
† Martin L. West (University of Oxford);
Nigel G. Wilson (University of Oxford).
• Annual Dies Academicus
• Study days and other study events
• Conference cycles About a codex, About an epigraph, About a text
• Investigations into the history of manuscripts in the library
• Survey of the Greek and Latin incunabula and 16 th century editions
• Creation of a repertoire of all copyists of Greek codices
• Census of codices with patristic content
• Collection of data for compiling a catalogue of manuscripts containing classical Latin authors
• Translation of texts of fundamental significance for the history of the Ambrosiana
• Studies of celebrated Ambrosian manuscripts
Throughout August, every Sunday, you can visit the Statue of San Carlo with a licensed tourist guide.
Opening hours and access rules from August 4
Opening hours and access rules for the month of September
The work, a Landscape with a lake by Massimo d'Azeglio, is currently displayed in Room 19.
The exhibition shows a series of autograph documents of prominent women kept in the Ambrosiana.
The exhibition presents a selection of volumes that trace the history of medical studies from the beginning of the millennium to the time when Leonardo da Vinci was active, together with seven sheets of the Atlantic Code of anatomical subject.
