If in your understanding, archives and bookshelves are boring and obviously uninteresting, then you do not yet know anything about the Vatican's Apostolic Library. Meanwhile, this invaluable collection of manuscripts, books and letters can be considered a treasure in the literal sense. How many legends, guesses and assumptions are swarming around this library! In 2012, the veil was only a millionth of a half open, when several exhibits from the Vatican archives were exhibited as part of a demonstration to the simple people of this treasure. Of course, this is only a small part, but it also caused a lot of discussions and further assumptions.
What is stored in the Vatican library?
If it were possible to answer this question in one word, even epithets like "the history of mankind" or "the greatest secrets" would not convey all the rapture and real meaning. Just imagine the shelves with books and manuscripts, which are approximately 85 km! What is so fascinating for historians and just curious scientists secret archives of the Vatican? First, the loudest and most sensational inquisitorial processes that have been described are stored within these walls. There is in the archives of the Vatican and a whole department of heretics, where there are really rare and most secret processes. For example, even the trial of Giordano Bruno. By the way, even to this day, the scientist's contribution has been appreciated, but he has not been able to rehabilitate him.
Separately there is a hall in the Apostolic Library of the Vatican, where the most sad and at the same time intriguing stories of the empresses are kept. There are the last lines of the letter of Maria Stuart, and even lines belonging to the hand of Marie Antoinette. A lot of controversy and guesswork, as well as general attention, gave rise to some of the exhibits of the Vatican Library. A scroll with a letter on which eight prints from Henry VIII with an ambiguous request and threat to Clement VII himself were discussed, it was a question of divorce and permission to marry Anne Boleyn.
In the walls of the Vatican Library a scroll is kept with the accusation of Templar heresy. In short, history, or rather its most piquant and curious pages, in documents and manuscripts, fully appears before us. But now these are not boring paragraphs from the textbook, but the real intrigues, conspiracies and love triangles. That's why every historian and scientist would like to visit this library. When some of its exhibits were exposed to the eye of a common man, it immediately and the authority of the Vatican strengthened, and allowed the most curious to satisfy even a little bit of its inquisitive mind.
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