Humanistic Culture from Petrarch to Piccolomini: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Open House

Location: Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Time: 11am-4pm
Date:

Please join us for a viewing of manuscripts, facsimiles and early printed books relating to the spread of Renaissance Humanism in Europe, and especially the role played in this process by Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) and Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II).

This event is curated by Simona Iaria as part of the EuroCult/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research project ‘Cultural Exchanges, Network and Community in Early Humanist Europe: The Case of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini’.

This event is free and open to all.