RICCARDIANA] LIBRARY ADDRESS:Palazzo Medici Riccardi - Via Ginori, 10 DESCRIPTION: The Riccardiana Library is one of the most famous libraries in Florence, a public library located in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, in via Ginori, near the San Lorenzo Market. Close to this there is another library, called Moreniana, they share the same space but the two parties are totally independent of each other, with different administrations. RELEVANCE: The special access to the offices and to the private rooms of the prefect allows the guests to visit: the salon of Charles VIII, the gallery of stained glass that opens onto the courtyard of CONTACTS: Michelozzo, the Music Room, and the terrace that offers unusual views of San Lorenzo. It’s also possible have a look of the famous DIRECTOR: Dott.ssa Giovanna Lazzi spiral staircase designed by the architect Ferdinando Tacca in the Ph. +39 055 293385 middle of the seventeenth century (not available for security reasons), which, with its sinuous form rises from the ground floor EXHIBIT: M.Luisa Migliore up to the roof of the building. The tour ends in front of the Ph. +39 055 212586 polychrome wooden Crucifix, carved by the sculptor Don Romualdo and Rossella Giovannetti Ph. +39 055 212586 painted by Neri di Bicci, a work that comes from the monastery of the Augustinian nuns of San Gaggio recently been restored. http://www.riccardiana.firenze.sbn.it/ Ph. +39 055 212586/293385 MORENIANA LIBRARY ADDRESS:Palazzo Medici Riccardi - Via Ginori, 10 DESCRIPTION: The Moreniana library is located in Florence in Palazzo Medici Riccardi, it’s specialized on the history of Florence.This library share some of its spaces with another library called Riccardiana, but they are two different institutions both from the administrative and the organizational point of view, with different access. The Moreniana is managed directly by the Province that also has its historic headquarters and other offices in the building. RELEVANCE: The library was founded in the eighteenth century from the CONTACTS: collections of canonical Domenico Moreni, passionate bibliophile who devoted his life to the collection and study of books. The Ph: 0552760331 - 0552760334 collection Moreni is the main fund together with a part of the library of Domenico Maria Manni, which was purchased by the E-mail: [email protected] Provincial Deputation of Florence in 1870 by Peter Bigazzi, director of the Accademia della Crusca, which had bought it to preserve the collection. The library collections have been enriched over the time by other acquisitions. It was opened to the public in 1942. MARUCELLIANA LIBRARY INDIRIZZO: Via Cavour 43-47 - 50129 Firenze DESCRIZIONE: The Marucelliana Library is a public library in Florence with access from Via Cavour. Established by the will of Abbot Francis Marucelli, from which it is named, is the result of the donation of his rich and large personal library. Alessandro, the nephew of Marucelli,commissioned the construction of the building to the architect Alessandro Dori. The Library which was open to the public September 18, 1752, becoming the first library open to the general culture to a broad audience as you can still read the inscription on the facade:“Bibliotheca Marucellorum publicae maxime pauperum utility”(Library of Marucelli for public use, especially the poor). CONTACTS: RELEVANCE: http://www.maru.firenze.sbn.it/ In Marucelliana Library there are two busts: one representative marble of Francesco Marucelli by the sculptor Pietro Bracci e-mail: [email protected] (1749), and a carved plaster depicting Giacomo Leopardi by the Florentine Cecioni Adriano (1885). In the room called Tribuna Ph. +39 05 52 72 22 00 / there is a portrait of Francesco Marucelli attributed to the 21 06 02 / 21 62 43 Flemish painter David Canonical (XVII). LAURENZIANA LIBRARY ADDRESS: Piazza San Lorenzo n° 9 DESCRIPTION: The importance of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, with its collection of nearly 11,000 manuscripts, is based mainly on two converging factors, both extraordinary: the specific nature of the Library's holdings and the character of its building, which was planned and partly realized by Michelangelo Buonarroti. The story of this Library, from its core collection the Medici's private library to the various acquisitions which followed, has in fact been influenced by a constant aim. RELEVANCE: Vestibule: This is the Vestibule or entrance-hall of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, the library whose core collection comprised the manuscripts collected by Cosimo the Elder (1389- 1464) with the help of some of the most famous humanists of the time. CONTACTS: The reading room: hosts two series of wooden benches, the so- called plutei, which functioned as lecterns as well as book- Ph.:055 210760 shelves. The collection once kept here is unique for its philological and artistic value. http://www.bml.firenze.sbn.it/ Tribuna D'Elci:this Rotunda was added to the original library planned by Michelangelo in the first half of the 19th century in order to house the rich book collection, once belonging to the Florentine bibliophile and scholar Angelo Maria D'Elci (Florence 1754 - Vienna 1824), to the Laurenziana in 1818. The Canons' cloister UFFIZZI LIBRARY ADDRESS: Loggiato degli Uffizi DESCRIPTION: The library, which was founded in the second half of the eighteenth century by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, was housed up to 1998 in the part of Vasari’s complex that was originally the Ridotto or foyer of the Medici Theatre. The new premises were opened on 16 December 1998 in the renovated areas previously occupied by the Biblioteca Magliabechiana. The library, which conserves numerous manuscripts from the collections of the Florentine museums, became specialised in the art history sector to respond to the demands of study and documentation of the related museums. RELEVANCE: The overall number of titles is 78,600. CONTACTS: These include: 470 manuscripts, 5 incunabula, 192 sixteenth- century books, 1,445 books printed between 1601 and 1800 and PH. + 39 055 2388647 1,136 periodicals (including around 140 still on subscription). E-mail: [email protected] http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it ACCADEMY OF FINE ARTS ADDRESS: Via Ricasoli, 66 DESCRIPTION: The Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno, or "academy and company of the arts of drawing", was founded in 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. It was made up of two parts: the Company was a kind of guild for all working artists, while the Academy was for more eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo’s court, and supervised artistic production in Tuscany. It was later called the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. At first, the Academy met in the cloisters of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata. Artists including Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco da Sangallo, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Giambologna were members. Most members of the Accademia were male; Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to be admitted. In 1784 Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, combined all the schoolsRELEVANCE of drawing: in Florence into one institution, the new CONTACTS: Accademia di Belle Arti, or academy of fine arts. It was housed inThe a Galleriaformer convent dell'Accademia in via Ricasoli, was founded premises in 1784; which it itadjoins still the http://www.accademia.firenze.it/it/ occupies.Accademia di Belle Arti in via Ricasoli, but is otherwise unconnected with it. It has housed the original David by Ph +39 055 215449 Michelangelo since 1873. The ancient hospital of Saint +39 055 2398660 Matthew,that host the academy was built between 1388 and 1410. In the library of the institute, founded in 1801, are preserved original engravings, manuscripts, sixteenth, drawings and documents since 1784. NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY ADDRESS: Piazza dei Cavalleggeri, 1 DESCRIPTION: The Library originated from the collection of Antonio Magliabechi, consisting of some 30,000 volumes and bequeathed to the city of Florence in 1714. In 1885, it took the name of National Library and, in 1875, appellative of Central. Originally housed in the Palazzo della Dogana, adjoining the Uffizi, the Library was transferred to its present, specially built headquarters in 1935. RELEVANCE: Sala Dante: one of the Monumental Rooms of the Library, designed to accommodate Exhibitions and events of particular importance. On the first floor of the building is accessible through two monumental staircases. Area: 187.6 square meters where even the hallways Capacity: 100 people standing, 80-90 to sit CONTACTS: Sala Galileo: with its circular plan is located on the ground floor of the Library and is designed to host cultural events. http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ Capacity: 100 people, seats 80-90 The Michelangelo Room is located on the ground floor of the PH. +39 055 24 91 9322 Library and is usually used for training courses. Capacity: 40 seats Chiostro Brunelleschiano: usually closed to the public, is on the first floor of the National Library and is adjacent to the Pazzi Chapel. Square meters Capacity: up to 400. MILITARY GEOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE ADDRESS: Via Cesare Battisti, 10 DESCRIPTION: An official organ of the State for cartography, the Institute is heir to the military Topographical Offices of the States existing prior to Italy’s unification. It was established in 1872, under the name of Istituto Geografico Militare, to satisfy the geodetic, topographical and cartographical needs of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1882 it assumed its present name. Since its foundation its activity has consisted of geometric classifying of the territory, land surveying, medium-scale map-making and producing documentation for the public. RELEVANCE: Various collections are conserved by the Institute. The cartographic collection (around 36,000 items) is divided into the old papers of the pre-unification States (up to about 1860); the CONTACTS: IGM "historical series", which includes maps of the entire national territory on the scale of 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and Ph.