This internship gave us the opportunity to engage intensively with a number of different handwriting styles, languages, abbreviations, and problems of textual legibility and condition of the manuscripts. Continua a leggere

One can never be fully prepared to face the unknown and, in facing one’s subject of research, that can be something positive as a certain degree of measured incomprehension is what moves the investigation forward. The privilege of working directly which such a rich and diverse corpus of documents that is the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence,… Continua a leggere