216 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2012
Italian text

LUX IN ARCANA
THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVE REVEALS ITSELF
Catalogue of the exhibition held by the Capitoline Museums in Rome from 29 February to 9 September 2012

100 original documents, selected among the treasures preserved and cherished by the Vatican Secret Archives for centuries, conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors, crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters, manuscripts, codices, and ancient parchments. Really ancient and priceless papal documents leave the Vatican for the first and possibly only time in history.