Biblioteca Angelica
The Biblioteca Angelica (English: Angelica Library) is a public library located in Rome, Italy. In front of the Piazza Sant'Agostino square, adjacent to the church of Sant'Agostino, not far from Piazza Navona.
The library holds about over 130,000 volumes of manuscripts[1] (among them Codex Angelicus) and 1,100 incunabula, which formerly belonged to the Augustinians. These works are important for our knowledge of the history of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
History
The library was established in 1604Angelo Rocca (1546–1620), and belonged to the Augustinian monastery.[2] Having been open to the public since 1609, it is considered the oldest public library in Europe along with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.[3]
bySince 1940, the library has housed the archives of the Academy of Arcadia. Since 1975, the library has been under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture.
References
- ^ Marinelli, Anne V. (1955). "The State Public Libraries of Italy". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 25 (2): 163–170. doi:10.1086/618170. ISSN 0024-2519. JSTOR 4304402. S2CID 148074856.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ "Le biblioteche più belle e antiche del mondo - OndaDurso". Archived from the original on 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
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