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Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento

Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento () is a library and archive located in the Historic Centre of Florence, Italy. It houses regional collections relating to the Italian unification and the mid-18th century.

History

The Library and Archive, owned and operated by the city of Florence, was founded in August 1945 as a restoration and replacement of the Museo del Risorgimento di Firenze founded in 1901. As of 2020, the Library and Archive's holdings include about 30,000 volumes of heritage documents, 550 volumes of periodicals, two 16th century books, ten current periodicals, one hundred discontinued periodicals, bibliographical funds, manuscripts, and a large iconographic collection from the Risorgimento period.

Collections were seriously damaged by the 1966 flood of the Arno. Nonetheless, the facility and collections were restored and the Library and Archive reopened in 1969.

The Library and Archive is in the same building as: the (Central Municipal Library of Florence), the (the Tuscan Academy of Sciences and Letters, "La Colombaria") and the (the Florentine Museum and Institute of Prehistory).

In 2007, Italian Senator introduced a Bill to restore of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence, partly in commemoration the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy (2011). The Bill states that the museum had been open to the public only nineteen years, from 1909 though 1938, and was dismantled in 1945, after World War II.

Selected collections

See also

References

Sources

  • Papers of Emanuele Orazio Fenzi donated around 1955–1956 to the Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento. Documents span 1851 to 1923: travel diaries, translations, copies of agricultural writings, critical bibliography of Libya (1867–1922); letters from family and others to Emanuele Orazio Fenzi; correspondence between Emanuele Orazio Fenzi and Gino Bartolommei Gioli (1912–1923), 6 pieces. Rotondi, the bibliographer, was, at the time, working at the National Union Catalog Center (Petrucciani, Alberto. "Rotondi, Clementina". Dizionario Bio-Bibliografico Dei Bibliotecari Italiani Del XX Secolo. Retrieved 4 March 2021).
  • "Some 7000 volumes were inundated by the waters.," on page 20, was omitted at 22:27 in the podcast. Nonetheless, the narrative chronicles the overall extent of damage to archives and artifacts.

Further reading

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  • : "InventarioI". Vol. 11, no. 2 (July–December 1965). pp. 301–333.
  • : "InventarioII". Vol. 12, no. 1 (January–June 1966). pp. 113–186. Cronaca 147.
  • : "InventarioIII". Vol. 12, no. 2 (July–December 1966). pp. 233–291. Cronaca 293.
  • : "Inventario IV". Vol. 20, no. 1 (January–June 1974). pp. 109–138. Le caricature 109. OPAC SBN Codice Identificativo </div>