There can be something life changing about seeing the writing of a favourite author or historical figure, someone you would invite to dinner or choose to accompany you to a desert island. This summer, the National Library of Australia offers visitors just such an opportunity to see manuscripts rarely displayed outside of Germany. A copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, penned by Italian teenager Tommaso Benetti in 1347, a letter Galileo wrote to a supportive friend in 1635 after his trial before the Inquisition and Mozart's manuscript score of The Marriage of Figaro (c. 1785-1786) are just three of the remarkable manuscripts in Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which opened at the Library on 26 November.
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