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Dennis E Rhodes, Itinera ad Loca Sancta. I libri di viaggio delle Biblioteche Francescane di Gerusalemme. By Alessandro Tedesco, The Library, Volume 19, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 394–396, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/19.3.394
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St Francis of Assisi was born about 1182 and died on 3 October 1226. In 1210 he had already founded the order of mendicant friars now known as the Franciscan Order. In 1224 they arrived in England, but in 1217 they had already set foot in the Holy Land. Thus it is that the Franciscans have in 2017 celebrated the eighth centenary of their first establishing a church in Jerusalem. Since 2012 various members of the Catholic University of Milan, under the supervision of Professor Edoardo Barbieri, have been visiting Jerusalem at regular intervals, and Professor Barbieri has wisely arranged for several of his most promising pupils, especially Luca Rivali and Alessandro Tedesco, to begin the daunting task of sorting out and properly cataloguing the circa 200 printed books on the subject of travels to the Holy Land, not to mention the manuscripts, which still exist in the Franciscan Libraries of Jerusalem. Thus was inaugurated in 2010 a project entitled ‘Books—Bridges of Peace’ by the Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca—CRELEB—at the Catholic University of Milan.
