Events

Incunabula - Catania, 11 October 2024

The Biblioteca Generale Carmelitana had the pleasure of participating in the Study Day “Describing Incunabula”, organised by the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, as part of the PRIN 2020 project: “MeMo: Memory of Montecassino”.

The meeting, sponsored by the library itself, along with SISBB, AIB Sicilia, and the Society of Homeland History for Eastern Sicily, took place on October 11th at the Benedictine Monastery in Catania and concerned the study and cataloguing projects of important Italian incunable collections.

The cataloguing work of incunabula, recently undertaken by the General Carmelite Library, was illustrated by Rosa Parlavecchia (University of Salerno) and Sara Bischetti (General Carmelite Library) and provided an opportunity to disseminate knowledge of the oldest library heritage housed there.  

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News

The General Archive and Library of the Carmelite Order on Academia.edu

The General Archive and Library of the Carmelite Order have recently joined the portal Academia, with the aim of sharing and disseminating among scholars, both religious and secular, the numerous publications (monographs, essays, and articles) that have emerged in recent years from research conducted in the Archive and Library. The various studies have been published by Edizioni Carmelitane, the publishing house of the General Curia of the Carmelite Order and the Institutum Carmelitanum.

The broader aim was also to raise awareness of the Carmelite Archive and Library as institutions that are not only ecclesiastical but also cultural, integrating them within the international scientific community for potential future collaborations and projects.

For the moment, the latest publications in the various series of Edizioni Carmelitane have been added, which you can view at the following link: https://independent.academia.edu/ArchivioeBibliotecageneralidellordinecarmelitano.

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Research Grants

Research Grant AGOC – Eighth Edition

The eighth edition of the Research Grant, in memory of Fr. Emanuele Boaga, announced by the General Archive of the Carmelite Order, has been awarded to Dr. Antonella Dejure, who will carry out a study entitled: The correspondence of Carmelite nuns from the monasteries of Saint Gabriel the Archangel of Capua and the Most Holy Saviour of Capri to Father Serafino Maria Potenza (1697-1763): regest, edition, historical and linguistic study of the documentation preserved in the General Archive of the Carmelite Order..

We hope that this work will be an opportunity not only to help strengthen the Carmelite Order's identity, but also to engage an international audience, through a theme of global interest such as female correspondence.

For further information, please refer to the tender and the award minutes. https://archivioocarm.com/assegno-di-ricerca-alla-memoria-di-p-emanuele-boaga-ottava-edizione-2024/

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