From Saint Francis to Pope Leo XIV: the value of consistency and perseverance
A reflection on how consistency and perseverance transform individual choices into memory, community, and identity.
For many, the beginning of September marks the return to work after the summer holidays. This end-of-season atmosphere...
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How do you read a miniature? Dido in Petrarch's Triumphs
Every medieval miniature is a story constructed with images. Learning to read it means discovering that nothing has been left to chance.
There are works that immediately strike you with their beauty,...
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Dido, Queen of Carthage: The Woman Who Transformed Pain into a City
From Virgil's Aeneid to Petrarch's Triumphs,the journey of a queen who continues to question our time.
Why, after more than two thousand years, do we continue to talk about Dido?
Every era chooses its...
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Burning Cupid's weapons
Petrarch, Laura and the fire that transforms love in sheet 86 of the Triumphs
A small fire burns in the center of a room. Before the flames, Petrarch and Laura perform an unexpected...
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St. Francis, the Canticle of the Creatures, and the Beauty of Nature
Since the beginning of the year, Antiquus has been carrying out a commercial and educational initiative dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, on the occasion of the eight hundredth anniversary of his...
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St. Francis and the Inner Gold: An Alchemical Vision of Christian Transformation
Saint Francis, an alchemist only in a symbolic sense: his life speaks of transformation
I'm writing from Rimini, in Romagna. Here, as comedian Giacobazzi would say, every Romagnolo has a few basic things...
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A beer while you were painting a Gospel?
THE GOSPEL OF SAINT FRANCIS
The Lectiones evangeliorum Clm 21597, a manuscript from 1462 born in Weihenstephan
The Gospel of St. Francis: a manuscript born where beer was also made
Imagine a Benedictine monk hunched...
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Gero Codex: History of the Ottonian Manuscript between Reichenau, Empire, and Faith
Reichenau Abbey: The Scriptorium That Transformed Books into Power
There are manuscripts that not only tell the story of the text they contain, but also the world that produced them.
The Gero Codex, also...
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There were an Italian, a Frenchman and an Austrian
Petrarch, the Sun's chariot and the passing of time in a manuscript of the Triumphs
There were an Italian, a Frenchman and an Austrian
When I was young, before the European Union, there were...
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Gradenighi's Divine Comedy: The allure of the suspended work preserved in Rimini