Listri, Libraries
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From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to a camel bookmobile
on the Kenyan-Somali border, human beings have had a long,
enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and
like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and
imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It's the
unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or
mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a
far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a
whole new way of being in the world. In this new photographic
journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest
libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and
imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling
staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us
through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic
libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval,
classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some
of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed
and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and
incunabula. In each, Listri’s poised images capture the library’s
unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design
details. Featured libraries include the papal collections of the
Vatican Apostolic Library, Trinity College Library, home to the
Book of Kells and Book of Durrow, and the priceless holdings of the
Laurentian Library in Florence, the private library of the powerful
House of Medici, designed by Michelangelo. With meticulous
descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only
of the libraries’ astonishing holdings—from which highlights are
illustrated—but also of their often lively, turbulent, or
controversial pasts. Like Altenburg Abbey in Austria, an outpost of
imperial Catholicism repeatedly destroyed during the European wars
of religion, or the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, with its
horde of archival Inquisition documents. At once a bibliophile
beauty pageant, an ode to knowledge, and an evocation of the
particular magic of print, Massimo Listri Libraries. Memories of
the World is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the
heart of our halls of learning, to the stories they tell, as much
as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.
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