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The Vatican Secret Archives Revealed
An unprecedented cultural event: 100 original documents, preserved for 400 years in the Popes’ Archive, will leave the confines of the Vatican City walls for the first time in history, and will be admired at the Capitoline Museums in Rome, from 1st March till September 2012, for the exhibition Lux in arcana - The Vatican Secret Archives. Conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors. Crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters. Manuscripts, codices, ancient parchments. A unique and once-in-a-lifetime event recounting history through its sources.
Highlights include a parchment roll 60 meters long that documents the trial against the Order of the Templars, a letter emanating from Henry VIII to Clement VIII asking for the pope’s annulment of the King’s first marriage, Galileo Galilei’s conviction, Luther’s excommunication, and many other historical texts.
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