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…
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.
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.
