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Library Attractions In Lazio

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Lazio is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the central peninsular section of the country, it has almost 5.9 million inhabitants – making it the second most populated region of Italy – and its GDP of more than 170 billion euros per annum means that it has the nation's second largest regional economy. The capital of Lazio is Rome, which is also Italy's capital and the country's largest city.
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  • 2. Villa Mondragone Monte Porzio Catone
    Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa originally in the territory of the Italian comune of Frascati , now in the territory of Monte Porzio Catone . It lies on a hill 416m above sea-level, in an area called, from its many castles and villas, Castelli Romani about 20 km southeast of Rome, near the ancient town of Tusculum. Construction began in 1573 by Cardinal Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, who commissioned the design for it and for the Palazzo Altemps in central Rome from Martino Longhi the Elder, on the site of the remains of a Roman villa of the consular family of the Quinctilii. Pope Gregory XIII, whose heraldic dragon led to calling the villa Mondragone, used the villa regularly as a summer residence, as guest of Cardinal Altemps. It was at the Villa Mondragone that in 1582, Gregor...
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  • 8. Biblioteca Angelica Rome
    The Angelica Library is in Rome, Italy. It is a public library located in front of the Piazza Sant'Agostino square, adjacent to the church of Sant'Agostino, not far from Piazza Navona. The library holds about 180,000 volumes of manuscripts 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.
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  • 10. Biblioteca Casanatense Rome
    The Biblioteca Casanatense is a library in Rome, Italy. The library is located at Via di Sant'Ignazio, 52.
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  • 12. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma Rome
    The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma , in Rome, is one of two central national libraries of Italy, along with Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze in Florence. In total, 9 national libraries exist, out of 46 state libraries.The library's mission is to collect and preserve all the publications in Italy and the most important foreign works, especially those related to Italy, and make them available to anyone. The collection currently includes more than 7,000,000 printed volumes, 2,000 incunabula, 25,000 cinquecentine , 8,000 manuscripts, 10,000 drawings, 20,000 maps, and 1,342,154 brochures.
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  • 15. Biblioteca Vallicelliana Rome
    The Biblioteca Vallicelliana is a library in Rome, Italy. The library is located in the Oratorio dei Filippini complex built by Francesco Borromini in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova. The library holds about 130 000 volumes of manuscripts, incunabula, and books. In this number about 3 000 manuscripts written in Latin, Greek, among them Bible of Alcuin from the 9th century, lectionary from the 12th century etc. The library holds documents from the time of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
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