Here we are again, celebrating the women praised by Boccaccio in his De mulieribus claris: our woman of the week is Sempronia, who lived during the last decades of the end of the Roman Republic.…
Initial F, illumination from the manuscript "Liber epistolarum ad usum Ecclesiae metropolitanae Parisiensis", ms. Latin 8895, p. 12, 1753, Département des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
On December 11, the world celebrates International Mountain Day! This year marks the 15th anniversary of the event, which was officially established by the UN General Assembly in 2003. The importance of mountains lies not only…
Today Folia celebrates the Feast of All Saints (or All Saints' Day) with an illumination from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, showing all Saints in Paradise.The origins of this celebration go back…
“Hell”, illumination from the manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Ms. 65, c. 108r, Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly.
Successful presentation of the new facsimile edition of the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis in the presence of the Archbishop, the publisher and the director of the Museo Diocesano e del Codex. The promotion of the Codex has been…
The facsimile edition of the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis will be presented tomorrow, Sept. 11th. This edition was commissioned to Franco Cosimo Panini Editore by the Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati. A unique occasion to discover the Codex…
How could we not open our Women’s Wednesday column if not with the very first woman, Eve? The myth of Eve was surely a heavy one for women through history, especially in Catholic medieval Europe; the First…