William Butts
William Butts founded Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts in Galena, Illinois, with his wife Yolanda in 1991. He’s been book review editor for Manuscripts for more than twenty years.
Before digging into the nitty-gritty of what Archbishop Bruguès has undertaken—wrangling the Vatican Library into the twenty-first century—I asked the seventy-four-year-old French-born Dominican…
The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Apostolic Library, or “the Vat” to insiders) and the Archivio Segreto Vaticano (Vatican Secret Archives) have reputations as impenetrable fortresses.
