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List Of Libraries In Italy
This is a list of notable libraries in Italy, arranged by Regions of Italy, region. Northeast Italy, Northeast Emilia-Romagna * Archiginnasio of Bologna * Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna * Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna * Biblioteca of San Domenico, Bologna * Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna * Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Bologna * , Casalecchio sul Reno * Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena * Malatestiana Library, Cesena * Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara * Biblioteca Estense, Ferrara * , Forlì * , Mirandola * * , Parma * , Parma * , Parma * Biblioteca Palatina, Parma * Biblioteca Passerini-Landi, Piacenza * Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna * , Ravenna * , Reggio Emilia * Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga, Rimini * , Rimini Friuli-Venezia Giulia * , Gorizia * * Biblioteca Guarneriana, San Daniele del Friuli * Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol * *, Bolzano *, Merano * Biblioteca Civica Girolamo Tartarotti, Rovereto * Veneto *, Belluno *, Belluno * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Italy
Northwest Italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency. Northwest encompasses four of the country's 20 regions: *Aosta Valley *Liguria *Lombardy *Piedmont Geography It borders to the west with France via the Western Alps, to the north with Switzerland via the Central Alps, to the east with the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna belonging to Northeast Italy and to the south with the Ligurian Sea and the extreme offshoot of Tuscany in Central Italy. Northwest Italy includes a large part of the Po Valley and is crossed by the Po river, the longest in Italy. Demography Northwest Italy has 15,923,805 inhabitants as of 2025. Regions Most populous municipalities Below is the list of the most populous municipalities with more than inhabitants: Economy The gross domestic product (GDP) of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Library La Vigna
Centro di Cultura e Civiltà Contadina - Biblioteca Internazionale La Vigna is an institute of documentation specialised in studies concerning agriculture and wine. It is considered as the most important reference point for ampelographic research worldwide. It is situated in Vicenza in Contrà Porta Santa Croce n. 3 in Palazzo Brusarosco, then Galla. The palace is an eighteenth-century building, which was partially restored by the architect Carlo Scarpa. History of the institution “Centro di Cultura e Civiltà Contadina” - Biblioteca Internazionale “La Vigna” was established by Demetrio Zaccaria. He was an entrepreneur from Vicenza who began to get interested in the field after having read a book about oenology in New York City in 1951. It took twenty years to build an international library for researchers and connoisseurs. Dictionary of Wine by Frank Schoonmaker was the first book that was bought. Demetrio Zaccaria took part in international meetings, maintained impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana
The Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana is a main public library of the municipality of Vicenza, Italy. Inaugurated at the dawn of the 18th-century, and now the third largest library in the Veneto, after the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice and the University of Padua library. The main office is located in the Palazzo San Giacomo, Vicenza. History The library was formed from the donation of 9000 volumes in 1696 by the jurist and scholar Giovanni Maria Bertolo to the city of Vicenza, with the proviso could become public and provided with a home of "sufficient splendor". It was therefore decided by 1706 to place Bertolo's private library in the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà. In 1708, after the enlargement of the Palazzo by Francesco Muttoni, the library was opened to the public and entitled "Bertoliana" in honor of its original donor. The inventory of Bertolo's donation lists 8,701 works, of which 1,614 are of a legal nature. Over the years there have been further donations and additions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrarch's Library
Francis Petrarch (; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; ; modern ), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch was later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the . Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the " Dark Ages".Renaissance or Prenais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblioteca Marciana
The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark (, but in historical documents commonly referred to as the ) is a public library in Venice, Italy. It is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositories for manuscripts in Italy and holds one of the world's most significant collections of classical texts. It is named after St Mark, the patron saint of the city. The library was founded in 1468 when the humanist scholar Cardinal Bessarion, bishop of Tusculum and titular Latin patriarch of Constantinople, donated his collection of Greek and Latin manuscripts to the Republic of Venice, with the stipulation that a library of public utility be established. The collection was the result of Bessarion's persistent efforts to locate rare manuscripts throughout Greece and Italy and then acquire or copy them as a means of preserving the writings of the classical Greek authors and the literature of Byzantium after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. His choice of Venice was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortuny Museum
The Museo Fortuny or Fortuny Museum is an art museum in San Marco, in central Venice, Italy. The museum is housed in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny, where Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949) had a studio in the late nineteenth century, and lived from 1902. The museum presents paintings, fabrics, and Fortuny’s lamps on the first floor, together with the history of the palazzo and its atelier on the second floor. The building still has features created by Fortuny. The working environment is represented through wall-hangings, paintings, and lamps. Fortuny died in 1949, and in 1956 the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei was gifted to the comune of Venice; the comune took full possession only in 1965, after the death of Fortuny's widow, Henriette Negrin. The museum was opened in 1975. It is run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. The website for the museum is atFortuny Museum Website Collections (Venice) The family of Charles IV copy after Goya by Mariano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family, Count, Conte Giovanni Querini (Count John Querini). Architect Carlo Scarpa designed interior, exterior, and garden elements and spaces on the ground floor of the historic building. Location The foundation is located in the Palazzo Querini Stampalia and includes living quarters, an archive, a library, and a museum of paintings and furnishings, the Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia. Located just South of the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in the sestiere Castello, Venice, Castello, the Foundation is open to the public for academic research. Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6328671.jpg, Entrance Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6337242.jpg, Atrium Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venezia, 1963) - BEIC 6337243.jpg, Interior Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico (Venez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblioteca Civica Di Padova
The Biblioteca Civica of Padua, Italy, is a public library founded in 1839 by Gerolamo Polcastro. Since 2009 it operates from headquarters in the . Its collections include manuscripts produced by Alberto Fortis. Together with the University Library of Padua, the oldest one, it is among the main sites of bibliographic preservation in Padua, as well as the coordinating center of the Urban Library System; eight libraries, a newspaper library and a media library that share the same catalog are part of the System. The name "civic" underscores the primary goal of this institution since its founding: to be a service of the city, working for its citizens. The Library holds more than 500,000 volumes, 5,000 manuscripts, 323 incunabula, 2,000 periodicals, and an iconographic collection of 12,000 items, many of which document the events of Padua and its surroundings at the turn of World War I.Biblioteca Civica di Padova (Biblioteca del Museo Civico), a cura di G. Faggian, in Accademia dei cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accademia Galileiana
The ''Accademia Galileiana'' ('Galilean academy') is a learned society in the city of Padua in Italy. The full name of the society is ('Galilean academy of science, letters and the arts in Padova'). It was founded as the in Padua in 1599, on the initiative of a Venetian nobleman, Federico Cornaro. The original members were professors in the University of Padua such as professor Georgios Kalafatis; one of its original members was Galileo Galilei. In 1779 the academy merged with the Accademia di Arte Agraria (founded in 1769) and became the Accademia di Scienze Lettere e Arti; in 1949 it became the Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; its name was changed to Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova in 1997, in honor of Galileo. The academy is lodged in the Carraresi Palace in Padua. The "Ricovrati" The name "ricovrati" literally means 'sheltered' and the academy took its name from a line from Boethius, "Bipatens animis asylum" (Latin, 'a sanctuar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
