Mirella Ferrari

The four centuries old library of the Liceo “Cesare Beccaria” (Milan), a formerly Barnabite school, owns an edition of Virgil, lavishly illustrated, printed in Venice 1543-1544 by the Giunta, one of the several Virgilian editions produced or sold by them between 1493 and 1552. It includes Virgil’s works followed by the opuscula (the spurious corpus vergilianum normally studied by 16th-century pupils); commentaries by ancient grammarians, Italian humanists and the bulky one by the Belgian Iodocus Badius Ascensius are printed along the text...

In the fall of 2013, at the Universita` Cattolica, Milan, a conference will be held to mark one...

On each side of the golden altar in the basilica of St Ambrose in Milan four saints are portrayed: on the right side are St Ambrose with the martyrs Gervasius, Protasius, and the bishop Simplicianus; on the left St Martin of Tours with the martyr Nabor, Nazarius, and a bishop of Milan, whose name is abbreviated as MANV. The full form of the name has been read as Maternus, whereas it has to be read as Mansuetus. Mansuetus (fl. 679-80) is the author of a letter sent to the emperor Constantine IV Pogonatus for the Sixth Oecumenical Council of Constantinople, which is transmitted by 19 manuscripts. Eight of these MSS are 9th-Century and almost contemporary with the golden altar. A copy of Mansuetus’ letter is included in MS Vat. Lat. 268, the final volume of a 12th-Century comprehensive collection of Ambrose’s works, written on the initiative of Martino Corbo, praepositus of the Basilica (fl. 1126-1152). This MS testifies to a lasting tradition, still connecting Mansuetus with St Ambrose.

Il 13 dicembre 2006 è organizzata dall’Università Cattolica una giornata commemorativa per il centenario della nascita di Ezio Franceschini (25 luglio 1906 - 21 marzo 1983). Sono presentati i quattro volumi pubblicati o ristampati per l’occasione dalla Editrice Vita e Pensiero. I due nuovi, Per Ezio Franceschini nel centenario della nascita. Ricordi, lettere, profilo e E. Franceschini, Lettere a Raffaele de Cesare, sono spunto per fornire uno status quaestionis riguardo alla bibliografia su e di Franceschini. Per introdurre le ristampe dei racconti E. Franceschini, La valle più bella del mondo e Parole come sabbia è tracciata una breve storia editoriale di questi due fortunati volumi, con l’aiuto anche di documenti d’archivio.