On October 19th, 2009, at 5 p.m. in the Museum of a Book in National Library of Belarus takes place the opening of the Week of Italian language including the inauguration of the exposition “Italian book on Belarusian area in the epoch of Bona Sforza”.
The event is the joint project of the Embassy of Italy to the Republic of Belarus and National Library of Belarus.
The exposition includes incunabula published in Italy in the second half of the XV-XVI centuries. Thus at the exhibition will be displayed “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1481), books by the well-known Italian book printer of the Renaissance Aldo Manuzio, Italian incunabula, editions of works by antique philosophers – Aristotle, Plutarch, Cicero etc., and books by Italian authors Francesco Petrarca and Nicollo Machiavelli.
Contact: (+375-17) 293-27-22, 293-27-64, 293-27-67.
Е-mail: pr@nlb.by
