Known as the oldest representation of the city of Verona, the Raterian Iconography represents a unique image: a synthesis of realism and idealisation, urban history and autobiographical narration.

Contained in a Belgian codex dating back to the 10th century and now lost, we can still admire it through two 18th-century copies: a handwritten one, which belonged to the intellectual Scipione Maffei and is currently exhibited in the new museum rooms of the Capitolare, and one printed as an accompaniment to a volume by Giambattista Biancolini. 

The thematic tour ‘ Narrating the City’, scheduled for Saturday 19 April at 10.00 a.m., will allow visitors to admire both, comparing their (numerous) similarities and (tiny) differences, discovering their history and details.

The exhibition will be complemented by some other texts from the Capitolare's collection, which describe or depict the appearance of the city of Verona over the centuries.