Vatican Library teams up with Dior’s creative director for exhibition on women travel trailblazers

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The Vatican Apostolic Library’s 'En Route' exhibition explores 19th-century world travel and women’s emancipation through art, fashion, and historic newspapers.

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00:00We tell a lot of travel stories, the first is that of the consul Cesare Poma who is an

00:19Italian diplomat and collector who collects the newspapers that we present, then there is

00:25within this journey there is hidden the journey of two French journalists who

00:30go around the world inventing a newspaper that is published in various parts of the world,

00:35then there are the stories of six women who in full Victorian age decide to break

00:43the conventions of the time and to leave alone, which was absolutely not allowed for their

00:48tour of the world. Reading about these women, about how these women to travel in the Victorian era

01:01immediately felt the need to change clothes because otherwise it was not

01:11comfortable to travel, especially on a bicycle, a 90 kg bicycle, and as the first element

01:17that they took off was the corset.

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