Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III

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Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III
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40°50′10″N 14°14′59″E / 40.8362°N 14.2496°E / 40.8362; 14.2496
Established1790s
Collection
Size1,480,747 printed volumes, 319,187 pamphlets
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WebsiteBiblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III

The Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (

Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
.

In quantitative terms it is the third largest library in Italy, after the national libraries in

incunabula and the 1,800 Herculaneum papyri.[1]

History and collections

The library was founded at the end of the 18th century in the Palazzo degli Studi (which now houses the

Palazzo Capodimonte, the library from the celebrated Farnese Collection that Carlo di Borbone
had transferred to Naples in 1734).

Opened to the public in 1804 under the name of the Reale Biblioteca di Napoli, and directed by the great humanist Juan Andrés, who composed his most important memoir, in Latin, published in Madrid by the Instituto Juan Andrés de Comparatística y Globalización with a study that broadens and renews the knowledge of this key and very intricate place in European culture. [2]

In 1816 it changed its name to Reale Biblioteca

unification
of Italy in 1860 it took up its present name of the Biblioteca Nazionale.

In 1910 the Officina dei papiri ercolanensi was added to the library – this was the workshop founded by Carlo di Borbone to conserve the papyri found in excavations at Herculaneum. After long debate and on the suggestion and efforts of Benedetto Croce, in 1922 the library was moved to its present location at Palazzo Reale, granted to the library by King Victor Emmanuel III (whose name it still bears). After the transfer, the collections of other important Neapolitan libraries were annexed to it, including the Biblioteca Brancacciana (formed in Rome by cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio in the first half of the 17th century, transferred to Naples, and finally becoming Naples' first public library).

It suffered during the

four days of Naples
), though the most precious manuscripts had been transferred to safer locations and remained there until the library reopened in 1945. In 1980 a wing of the building was seriously damaged by an earthquake, forcing the library to transfer some of its holdings to another part of the building.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività culturali - Official statistics Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Juan Andrés, La Biblioteca Real de Nápoles, Madrid, Instituto Juan Andrés de Comparatística y Globalización, 2020. [1]

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