The trial on the so-called looting of the famous Neapolitan library of the Girolamini, now released. The former director Marino Massimo De Caro, during one of the hearings, revealed to the judges that he had been about to purchase a precious volume containing some annotations by Galileo Galilei:
“A bookseller in Florence – he told the Court – offered me a book annotated by hand by Galileo Galilei, for one million euros, I couldn't buy it.... it was sold to a private American buyer for two million euros and now it is there, I was the one who brought it there”.
The investigation also involved former Forza Italia senator Marcello Dell'Utri, who was charged with the crime of complicity in embezzlement. The former parliamentarian was, however, acquitted of the charge on January 19, 2021, after also emerging unscathed from another trial, for receiving stolen goods, in Milan.
The former Forza Italia senator was accused of the appropriation of thirteen volumes, stolen from the Biblioteca dei Girolamini in NAPLES, books that had been removed by the former director Massimo Marino De Caro, his old friend and passionate bibliophile. It was De Caro himself, later sentenced to seven years in prison, who brought dell'Utri into the case.
Article published on May 25, 2022 - 20:09 pm
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