Libraries in Italy

One of the two central national libraries of Italy, the Rome institution was founded in 1876 shortly after unification to collect ...

Founded on the bequest of scholar Antonio Magliabechi and opened to the public in 1747, the Florence national library became one o...

Cardinal Federico Borromeo endowed the Ambrosiana and opened it to all readers in 1609, one of the earliest libraries founded as p...

Commissioned by the Medici pope Clement VII and designed by Michelangelo, the Laurentian Library opened to scholars in 1571 above ...

King Charles Albert of Sardinia founded the Biblioteca Reale in 1831 inside the Royal Palace of Turin, gathering the books and man...