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Category: Italian

A census of sixteenth-century Venice

Posted on 31 January 2020 by Special Collections

Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early manuscripts; a small piece of […]

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Acquisitions, Italian, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Decorated paper wrappers in the University Library

Posted on 29 July 2015 by Liam Sims

There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]

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Collectors and collecting, Italian, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Conduct literature for and about women in Italy: a new exhibition

Posted on 18 February 2014 by Emily Dourish

The  display cases outside the Map Department are hosting a new exhibition entitled “Conduct literature for and about women in Italy: prescribing and describing life”.  The […]

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Exhibitions, Italian, Uncategorized

1513–2013: Il Principe is 500 years old

Posted on 30 August 2013 by Special Collections

The year 2013 marks the quincentenary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe, one of the most widely read political writings of all time. The Italian Collections […]

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Italian, Rare Books

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Posted on 19 April 2011 by Ed

The Rare Books Department has recently added two significant early sixteenth-century books to the University’s collections, both rare collected writings of the Cistercian Bernard of […]

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Italian, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

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