https://antiquorum-habet.senato.it I Giubilei nella storia di Roma attraverso le raccolte librarie e documentarie del Senato Wed, 18 May 2016 09:44:17 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://antiquorum-habet.senato.it/index.php/section/section_23_en/?id=8865 Wed, 18 May 2016 09:44:16 +0000 http://antiquorum-habet.senato.it/en/content/the-invention-of-movable-type-printing/ The 1475 Jubilee was the first to benefit from German Johannes Gutenberg’s recent invention of printing with movable type (in 1455). Printing was an extraordinary tool for circulating news, ideas and knowledge. From that time onwards, Jubilees offered an opportunity to publish a wide variety of printed materials, from official, ritual and regulatory documents such as the bulls of indiction to devotional publications like prayer books and instructions for benefiting from indulgences, as well as pamphlets for a more educated audience keen to find out the background and history of the Jubilee in order to maximize the experience.

]]> https://antiquorum-habet.senato.it/index.php/section/section_23_en/?id=8867 Wed, 18 May 2016 09:44:17 +0000 http://antiquorum-habet.senato.it/en/content/the-mirabilia-romae-in-the-edition-printed-in-treviso-for-the-jubilee-of-1475/ Guides to the city of Rome, which have always helped pilgrims discover the wonders of the city, are one of the longest-running success stories in the publication history of the Jubilee. As early as the Middle Ages, the so called “Mirabilia Urbis” (or “Mirabilia Romae”) manuscript was widely circulated, its oldest versions dating back as far as the twelfth century. These books offered brief descriptions of sacred and pagan monuments in Rome, as well as covering the city’s history. They were written by grammarians and scholars who combined information, traditional credences and imaginative reconstructions. Compared with earlier itineraries and catalogues of monuments and churches, these books showed a new interest in Roman antiquities and their great appeal. The earliest printers realized how popular these publications were, and went on to bring out over a hundred editions from the 1470s onwards. In the 1540s, “Mirabilia Urbis” books started to include Christian devotional itineraries as well as Roman history and descriptions of Rome’s monuments. A new type of guide, titled “Cose Maravigliose”, sought to reconcile travellers’ artistic and historical curiosity with the need to provide pilgrims with information about churches, stations and relics, which up until that time had been catered to by so-called “Indulgentiae” and “Itineraria”.

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