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The cataloguing of the incunabula and the sixteenth-century books kept in the library of the Minor Capuchin Friars’ monastery in Bologna was carried out, where all the book funds present in the territory, coming from the convents of the entire minority province, have converged over time. The following information is provided on each sheet: the signature, the author, the title, the typographic notes, the format, the language and the provenance, or all the indications retrievable from the cover, guard page, frontispiece (such as handwritten notes, ex libris, seals, stamps) useful for retracing the conservative events of the text. As far as the library is concerned, an investigation was carried out to reconstruct the passage through time of the texts, the origins, the dispersions, which are also fundamental for understanding the culture of the Capuchin family.

L’elaborazione delle immagini, mirata all’interpretazione e alla classifi cazione del contenuto delle stesse, costituisce una questione di fondamentale importanza per la conservazione dei Beni Culturali, ambito nel quale la richiesta dell’acquisizione, del trattamento e della trasmissione dei dati in forma digitale rientra nelle procedure, sempre più tecnologicamente avanzate, programmate per il monitoraggio dello stato conservativo dei manufatti artistici. Multispectral Analysis on a Pietro Lianori painting - Image processing aimed to better understand and classify images is very important when dealing with the cultural heritage sector. An example of image analysis and processing on paintings is featured in this paper: the survey campaign was realised on several XV century’s paintings kept in the Frati Minori Cappuccini provincial museum in Bologna. The focus is on a work carried out on a Pietro Lianori painting. It is possible to understand the differences between the use of visible light, infrared light and ultra-violect fluorescence.

The article examines a collection of engravings by Luigi Tadolini, which he derived from the drawings of Bolognese painter Gaetano Gandolfi. In her book on Gandolfi, Lidia Bianchi pointed that there are two sets of collection of prints derived by Tadolini from Gandolfi's drawings. An album of Tadolini's engraved heads has been discovered at the Bibliothéque d'Art et d'Archéologie Jacques Doucet in Paris, France. Brief description and information about the drawings and engravings are presented.

The Casa del Mutilato (House of the Mutilated) in Ancona, Italy, is a significant example of twentieth-century architecture and the current initiatives aimed at its recovery and restoration can represent a useful and interesting test bed for experimenting with the most innovative IT methodologies for documenting the history and state of conservation of the building. This contribution therefore intends to propose some possible strategies for the design and implementation of a new concept of digital information system to preserve all the documentation relating to the Casa del Mutilato, make it accessible online also to citizens and the wider public, create a useful service for the management of the building itself, and enhance the asset, making known its history, constructive and artistic characteristics, and the possibilities of use. The results so obtained can then be usefully utilized for the documentation and planning of the recovery of monumental buildings of the twentieth century of historical and artistic interest in Europe.