The program “Archival history” with the participation of the chief curator of the Western European section of the Scientific and historical archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. Natalia Sredinskaya presents to the audience the Italian documents from the collection of N.P. Likhachev – a lifetime copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a fragment of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s handwritten text, as well as musical manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

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