A few years ago a learned bibliophile, stumbled on a 500 years old manuscript hidden among the funds of an Italian library and recognized it as the handwritten draft of a mythical book, thought lost and for centuries, actively but vainly sought after. "DE LUDO SCACHORUM" lost opus of Luca Pacioli, Franciscan friar, father of modern accounting, friend, counsellor, teacher & contributor to the century's incomparable genius, Leonardo da Vinci. The booklet is mesmerizing. It is a hand sketched draft of hundreds of complicated chess studies that Luca Pacioli must have been collecting over a long...
A few years ago a learned bibliophile, stumbled on a 500 years old manuscript hidden among the funds of an Italian library and recognized it as the ha...
Des les premieres annees du 15ieme siecle, Poggio Bracciolini, a la recherche de manuscrits rares, parcourait pays, duches et comtes et passait l'essentiel de son temps dans les bibliotheques, celles des cours seigneuriales mais aussi celles particulierement fournies des monasteres. Certaines de ses trouvailles l'ont definitivement rendu celebre. Dans les premieres annees de notre 21ieme siecle, un bibliophile averti, M. Duilio Contin, se montra son digne heritier dans cette noble tradition des humanistes italiens de la Renaissance. En effet, il lui fut demande d'examiner un manuscrit...
Des les premieres annees du 15ieme siecle, Poggio Bracciolini, a la recherche de manuscrits rares, parcourait pays, duches et comtes et passait l'esse...
