Archive
Steps of the Archive
The tall bell tower of Magister Deusdedit rises from the abbey castle to reassure the silent pilgrim who walks with his staff along the Via Romea through the insula on his long and perilous journey to the Holy Land. Dawn…
The trace of words
In the archives of ancient origin, such as the one of Pomposa, one can find terms that may sound unusual to today's ears that do not deal with Law or Jurisprudence. Emphyteusis, level, privilege, papal brief... Emphyteusis is a form…
From source to source, the voice of the archivist
The project on the archives of the Abbey of Santa Maria di Pomposa concerned, among other documentary nuclei, two large groups of parchments: the one preserved in the State Archive of Modena and the one kept in the Abbey of…
The emperor’s purple
What luck! This profession will never cease to amaze…Wandering around archives it is still possible to come across rare, precious, strange documentsThis is the case of one of the Pomposa documents kept in the State Archive of Modena: the "purple"…
Of all colours
Pomposa and its surroundings are a gallery of endless colour nuances: the grass, the plants, the crops, the animals, the carved stone, the bricks, the frescoes, the mosaics...Here is a sample by colour gradation. Last five orders of the bell…