A scuola con gli antichi. Libri e documenti in mostra

Venue: Refectory of the Episcopal Seminary. Address: Refectory of the Episcopal Seminary, Piazza del Seminario 1, 14100 Asti, AT This book and document exhibition, with educational workshops, is dedicated to the world of schooling and learning between the late Middle Ages and the Modern Age. The exhibition is organized by the Library of the Episcopal Seminary of Asti on the occasion of the 25 years since reopening to the public, within the framework of the European Heritage Days. Curators of the exhibition are Debora Ferro and Daniela Nebiolo. The collections of the Seminary Library, an institution that has always been linked to teaching and education, preserve extraordinary testimonies of European school culture. Among these testimonies are incunabula, sixteenth-century editions, teaching manuals, grammars, lexicons and pedagogical texts that for centuries accompanied the education of students, teachers and clergy. What also makes these volumes particularly precious are the numerous traces left by their users: handwritten notes, corrections, marginal annotations, ownership signatures and ex libris that return a living testimony of the p