Despite coming from a large family where he was the eldest of 5 brothers and 3 sisters, Guido Pontecorvo’s immediate family consisted only of his wife Lenore and his daughter Lisa. Ponte described his marriage to Leni, a Swiss art-historian… Read More ›
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, which was proclaimed on 17 March, 1861, in Turin. With celebrations taking place across Italy, we thought now would be a fitting moment to highlight some of the material… Read More ›
If you’ve seen our previous blog posts you’ll know that one of our current projects is to digitise significant examples from our 19th century photographic collections. We are putting the images online, along with detailed descriptions. This enables us to… Read More ›
Images and detailed descriptions are now available online for a collection of photographs showing scenes of 19th century Italy and France. Held in Special Collections, they mainly date from the 1850s and 1860s and feature a number of Italian cities and towns along the… Read More ›
