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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:09:58 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Vatican Online
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- ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE
- an Exhibit at the
- Library of Congress
- Washington, DC 20540
- Available by anonymous FTP from
- seq1.loc.gov
- (140.147.3.12)
- /pub/vatican.exhibit
-
- ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
- presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious
- manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in
- the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and
- Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican
- Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of
- Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the
- Renaissance. The exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson
- Building of the Library of Congress from January 8, 1993 through
- April 30, 1993. The online exhibit will be available by
- anonymous FTP indefinitely.
-
- [The rest of this announcement is in docs/words-l/Misc
- with filename vatican.online]
-