Where knowledge meets emotion - autumn edition 2024

For autumn 2024, we offer new thematic encounters, including pages of magic and a preview of the new exhibition on Aldo Manuzio, a chancellery calligraphy course with Ernesto Casciato, and two ‘encounters with the senses’, amidst fragrances and herbs.

The development of the exhibition area of the world's oldest surviving library continues. Thanks also to the contribution of the Verona Chamber of Commerce, it was possible to implement new rooms, enhanced by multimedia installations that combine the ancient and the contemporary.

Choose to donate your 5x1000 to the Fondazione Biblioteca Capitolare to support the activities of the world's oldest operating library!

On the occasion of the Days of Enhancement of the Church's Cultural Heritage, the Capitolare Library is organising - on 16 and 17 May - two free guided tours of the new exhibition spaces, with a focus on the objects restored thanks to the 8x1000 contribution to the Catholic Church

By winning the EssilorLuxottica Digital Prize in the 2023 edition of the Fondazione Patria della Bellezza competition, the Capitolare has been awarded a special multimedia exhibition space that will be shown on the big screens in Milan and on Fifth Avenue in New York

New appointment with the cycle of meetings "Let's talk about it. In dialogue with the present", scheduled for Friday 19 April at 6 p.m..

Monsignor Bruno Fasani will dialogue with Simona Atzori and Annalisa Paganini, artists who paint with their feet and mouth respectively, and with the head of communication of AbilityArt: an association dedicated to the promotion of art in contexts of disability, for a diffusion of beauty beyond all barriers.

A thematic tour discovering a brilliant and multifaceted Veronese intellectual who lived between the 17th and 18th centuries

Friday 10 November in the Chapter Library will be the presentation of 'Quel prete è da fucilare' (That priest is to be shot), the new historical novel by Msgr. Bruno Fasani

A thematic visit to discover the precious palimpsests preserved in the Chapter House, to reveal the secrets of this particular type of "recycled" manuscripts, with the possibility of entering the laboratory to see the multispectral survey instrumentation up close and better understand how it works.

Who were the alchemists? What are the properties of a bezoar? How do you capture a unicorn? A thematic path in three appointments will take us on an exploration of these and other questions, amidst treatises on magic and astronomy, medicinal herbs, poisons and legendary creatures, to discover the historical and cultural roots of the literary and film sagas that have enchanted generations of fans for decades.

Seventh International Conference of the Bernstein Project - the memory of paper scheduled at the Biblioteca Capitolare from 6 to 8 September 2023

Our scientific staff will accompany you on the discovery of the Capitolare's thousand-year history.

On July 6 and 7, an academic conference at the University of the Sorbonne will present the recent discovery of an unpublished fragment of Apuleius in a palimpsest manuscript of the Capitolare.

We report the opening of the Call for papers for the seventh edition of the "International conference on watermarks in digital collections" of the Bernstein project - the memory of paper.

In the month of June, the Fondazione Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona is organizing a new series of events: a multisensory journey in 4 stages to discover the book object, with a final wine tasting inside the evocative cloister of the canons.

Wine partner of the initiative will be Cantina Tinazzi: for more than 50 years producer of wines from Veneto and Puglia and ambassador of the quality of made in Italy in the world, attentive to the combination of tradition and innovation and sustainable creativity.

The meetings will be held on Wednesday afternoons (June 7, 14, 21 and 28) at 6 p.m.

Known as the oldest depiction of the city of Verona, the Raterian Iconography represents a unique image: a synthesis of realism and idealization, urban history and autobiographical narrative.

Special guided tours to discover the heritage of the Chapter Library are back again in March. 

The new event, to be held on Saturday, March 18, will feature Aldo Manuzio and the most famous editions in the history of Italian printing, the aldine.

With the new year we inaugurate a series of special events dedicated to the discovery and deepening of the heritage of the Capitolare Library.

In the first appointment, "Mirabile Natura. Herbaria, botanical miscellaneous and medieval symbols", miniatures and ancient engravings will lead us to the discovery of precious herbariums and texts of botany, from the origins of the discipline to the innovative experiences of the sixteenth century.