medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, December 8, 2006, at 8:48 am, John Briggs wrote:
> Thomas Izbicki wrote:
> >
> > The Gothic baldachino is by Giovanni di Stefano, and was made c. 1367,
> > under Pope Urban V. It has a relic chamber at the top, in which the
> > heads, or part of the heads, of Sts Peter and Paul are preserved
> > according to tradition. They may have been removed during the French
> > occupation of Rome in the late 18th century.
>
> It seems a bit far-fetched to blame the French occupation of 1798-99 -
> but
> that may be an all-purpose explanation. Libraries in particular often
> fall
> back on these: the British Library blames wartime bombing for the
> absence of
> some books (even those published later...) and the Science Museum
> Library
> talk of "the flood"!
And at Florence's Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale requests for books published well after 1966 have at times been returned unfilled with the explanation "alluvionato".
Best,
John Dillon
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