Today Mauro Zennaro, with assistance from James Clough, visited the Biblioteca Angelica, the first library open to the public in the Western World. The Biblioteca Angelica owes its name to the Augustinian Bishop Angelo Rocca (1546-1620), an intellectual and writer who collected 20,000 volumes, which were the basis for this amazing depository. The Angelica, which was featured in “Angels and Demons” as the Vatican library, is indeed like a movie set. High walls of 15th Century volumes reach to the highest of ceilings. Workshoppers were invited to photograph some of the rare volumes, including the “first graphic design book,” which shows the perfect schematics of the Roman letter.

Later Zennaro took the workshoppers on a tour of Piazza Navona and a Italian Baroque church for tracings and rubbings of inscriptions.