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The Biblioteca Civica Berio in Genoa conserves an extraordinary purple Book of Hours, known as Offiziolo Durazzo, an absolute masterpiece of Italian Renaissance illumination. In this video, art historians Giacomo Montanari and Chiara Ponchia, member of the PURPLE project, and Emanuela Ferro, the librarian in charge of the Berio’s conservation section, talk about it.

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