{"id":21107,"date":"2026-10-06T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/the-curator-of-ancient-books\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:49:06","slug":"the-curator-of-ancient-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/the-curator-of-ancient-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curator of Ancient Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author:<br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/cristina-caboni\/\"><strong>Cristina Caboni<\/strong><br\/><\/a>Publisher:<br\/><strong>Garzanti<\/strong><br\/>Date of publication:<br\/><strong>06-10-2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA book is a voice.\u201d Manon remembers her father\u2019s words well. During the few years they had together, he was the one who taught her everything she knows about books. Now, as an expert brought in to catalogue and assess a private library, she finds herself searching for his voice among its shelves. But Manon looks beyond the books themselves. In their pages, she searches for stories, for the past preserved in ink. Yet for the first time, she cannot find their soul. She is about to give up when she discovers something extraordinary: the collection is entirely devoted to women. Writers such as Christine de Pizan, Isotta Nogarola and Hrotsvit of Gandersheim \u2013 rare, often forgotten voices, whose works were not passed down because they were considered secondary. Strong, rebellious women who lived in a world that left little room for them, and who were feared for it. As Manon reads, something begins to change. The library seems to be speaking directly to her. It seems to be connected to her own family, despite the fact that this should be impossible \u2013 and despite the fact that accepting it would mean questioning everything she has ever been told. With Rafael, a young antiquarian bookseller, by her side, Manon begins to uncover the secrets of this extraordinary collection and the story of the person who cared for it, rescuing its books from oblivion. And she comes to understand that it is now her turn to carry that magic forward.               <br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A forgotten library. The voices of women history has tried to erase. And a young expert in ancient books who discovers, among those pages, a secret that concerns her own family.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cristina-caboni-en","category-libro-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21117,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions\/21117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}