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DON FERRANTE'S BOOKS IN THE BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA
An exhibition that aims at reconstructing the "considerable collection of books” belonging to Don Ferrante, which Alessandro Manzoni describes in the Promessi Sposi (The Bethroted).
Let’s begin a journey in five episodes dedicated to Lent, in which the Director of the Library, Mons. Federico Gallo, tells us about a precious fourteenth-century manuscript kept in the Library: L58 sup. It reports the Evangelica Historia, that is, the story of the life of Jesus, taken not only from the four canonical Gospels, which we all know, but also from apocryphal writings.
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