Starting from 2011, the Arpa Estense Prize, established in collaboration with the Superintendency and the Estense University Library, is linked to the Estense Music Festival, and with the participation of a truly important and significant sponsor for Modena, the publishing house Il Bulino art editions, which for several years now have been reproducing the major illuminated memorabilia from the same library for several years. The award, "aims to give recognition to personalities actively engaged in the field of ancient music, art and culture, with an interdisciplinary approach" and takes its title from one of the most evocative instruments preserved and visible in the Estense Gallery, the famous harp of the Roman luthier Giovanni Battista Jacomelli.