MASSIMO LISTRI: LIBRARIES

MASSIMO LISTRI: LIBRARIES.

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íBibliófilos, disfrutad! En este apasionante viaje fotográfico, Massimo Listri se pasea por algunas de las bibliotecas más antiguas e importantes del mundo para descubrir sus secretos arquitectónicos e históricos. Desde instituciones medievales a decimonónicas, pasando por colecciones privadas y monásticas, este libro es un peregrinaje social y cultural al corazón de los centros de nuestro conocimiento y a las historias que guardan.remembering. Whether walled monastery library, book hall of a time-honored university, a camel-drawn bookmobile on the Kenyan-Somali border, the famous private library of the Medici or the private library that portrays their own biography, book collections and libraries are places of well-being, oases of silence and at the same time exuberant before ideas, possibilities, histories, alternative worlds of life and undiscovered things. They offer space for concentrated work, modern spiritual science and analytical thinking, but they are also places of contemplation, of dreaming and of On this photo expedition, Massimo Listri visits some of the oldest and most beautiful libraries in the world. He leads u. a. through the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library, the Trinity College Library in Dublin, where the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow are kept, by the Laurenziana in Florence, formerly the private library of the mighty Medici, designed by Michelangelo and through monastic libraries in the Old and New Worlds. Massimo Listri. Libraries. Memories of the World is a feast for book lovers, an ode to reading and writing culture, and a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the sites that are the archives and ark of our history.

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