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Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Roma
The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (''Rome National Central Library''), 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'' (16th century books), 8,000 manuscripts, 10,000 drawings, 20,000 maps, and 1,342,154 brochures. As of 1990, the catalog of the library has been online, containing information on all printed documents received to the library since that year as well as important collections obtained over time, all titles of periodical publications, and parts of monographic publications, among other notable archived items. History The ...
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Unification Of Italy
The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century Political movement, political and social movement that resulted in the Merger (politics), consolidation of List of historic states of Italy, different states of the Italian Peninsula into a Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, single state in 1861, the Kingdom of Italy. Inspired by the rebellions in the 1820s and 1830s against the outcome of the Congress of Vienna, the unification process was precipitated by the Revolutions of 1848, and reached completion in 1871 after the Capture of Rome and its designation as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Some of the states that had been targeted for unification (''Italian irredentism, terre irredente'') did not join the Kingdom of Italy until 1918 after Italy defeated Austria-Hungary in the First World War. For this reason, historians sometimes describe the unification period as continuing past 1871, including activities ...
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Italian Culture
Italy is considered one of the birthplaces of Western civilization and a cultural superpower. Italian culture is the culture of the Italians, a Romance ethnic group, and is incredibly diverse spanning the entirety of the Italian peninsula and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. Italy has been the starting point of phenomena of international impact such as the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, the Maritime republics, Romanesque art, Scholasticism, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, Mannerism, the Scientific revolution, the Baroque, Neoclassicism, the Risorgimento, the Futurism, Fascism, and European integration. Historical background Italy was home to many well-known and influential civilizations, including Italic peoples such as the Etruscans, the Samnites and the Romans, while also hosting colonies from important foreign civilizations like the Phoenicians and the Greeks. Etruscan and Samnite cultures flourished in Italy before the emerge ...
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Government Of Italy
The government of Italy is in the form of a democratic republic, and was established by a constitution in 1948. It consists of legislative, executive, and judicial subdivisions, as well as a Head of State, or President. The Italian Constitution is the result of the work of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the representatives of all the anti-fascist forces that contributed to the defeat of Nazi and Fascist forces during the Italian Civil War. Article 1 of the Italian constitution states: ''Italy is a democratic Republic founded on labour. Sovereignty belongs to the people and is exercised by the people in the forms and within the limits of the Constitution''. By stating that Italy is a democratic republic, the article solemnly declares the results of the constitutional referendum which took place on 2 June 1946. The State is not a hereditary property of the ruling monarch, but it is instead a '' Res Publica'', belonging to everyone. The people who are called to ...
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Libraries In Rome
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include printed materials and other physical resources in many formats such as DVD, CD and cassette as well as access to information, music or other content held on bibliographic databases. A library, which may vary widely in size, may be organized for use and maintained by a public body such as a government; an institution such as a school or museum; a corporation; or a private individual. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are trained and experts at finding, selecting, circulating and organizing information and at interpreting information needs, navigating and analyzing very large amounts of information with a variety of resources. Li ...
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Libraries & Culture
''Information & Culture'' is an academic journal devoted to the study of the history of information, and any topic that would fall under the purview of the modern interdisciplinary schools of information creation, organization, preservation, or utilization. In addition, the ''Journal'' honors its 50+ year heritage by continuing to publish in the areas of archival, museum, conservation, and library history as well. It is edited at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information Established in 1966 as ''The Journal of Library History'', the journal was edited and published at Florida State University School of Library Science until it moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. It was briefly known as ''Journal of Library History, Philosophy, and Comparative Librarianship'' before returning to ''Journal of Library History''. In 1988, the title was changed to ''Libraries & Culture'', and changed again to ''Libraries and the Cultural Record'' in 2006. In 2012, the jour ...
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List Of Libraries In Italy
This is a list of libraries in Italy, arranged by region. Northeast Emilia-Romagna * Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna * Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna * Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena * Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara * Biblioteca Estense, Ferrara * Biblioteca Palatina, Parma Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Veneto * Accademia Galileiana, Padua * Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice * Fortuny Museum, Venice * Biblioteca Marciana, Venice * Petrarch's library, Venice * San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice * Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia * Zecca of Venice Northwest Aosta Valley Liguria Lombardy * Biblioteca Queriniana, Brescia * Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan * Biblioteca di Brera, Milan * Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura, Milan * Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Milan * Mansutti Foundation, Milan * Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan * Palazzo Sormani, Milan Piedmont * Royal Library of Turin * Turin ...
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Books In Italy
Italy is the home of two of the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Messaggerie Italiane and Mondadori Libri. Other large publishers include De Agostini Editore, Feltrinelli and the RCS MediaGroup. History Early printing press on Italian soil were established by a German colony in Subiaco in 1464, when Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim produced a Latin grammar by Donatus. Printing technology later developed in the 1460s in Rome and Venice, and in the 1470s in Bergamo, Bologna, Brescia, Cremona, Ferrara, Florence, Genoa, Lucca, Mantua, Messina, Milan, Modena, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Piacenza, Reggio Calabria, Treviso, Turin, Verona and Vicenza. By the 1480s printing facilities were also present in L'Aquila, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Siena, and Udine. At the time of Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the Biblioteca Magliabechiana in Florence merged with the , and by 1885 became known as the Bibl ...
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Annibale Vitellozzi
Annibale Vitellozzi (October 26, 1902, in Anghiari – September 16, 1990, in Rome) was an Italian architect, best remembered for his work on the Roma Termini railway station Roma Termini (in Italian, ''Stazione Termini'') is the main railway station of Rome, Italy. It is named after the district of the same name, which in turn took its name from ancient Baths of Diocletian (in Latin, ''thermae''), which ... and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma. References 1902 births 1990 deaths Architects from Rome {{Italy-architect-stub ...
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Tullio Dell'Anese
Tullio Dall'Anese (1909 in Treviso – 2001 in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...) was an Italian architect, painter, and sculptor, best remembered for his modernist architecture, such as his work on the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma in 1975. References 1909 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Italian architects Italian painters {{Italy-architect-stub ...
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Massimo Castellazzi
Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist *Massimo Agostini (born 1964), Italian football manager and former striker *Massimo Alioto (born 1972), associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore *Massimo Allevi (born 1969), former Italian pole vaulter *Massimo Ambrosini Cavaliere OMRI (born 1977), Italian former professional footballer * Massimo De Ambrosis (born 1964), Italian actor and voice actor *Massimo Amfiteatrof (1907–1990), Russian-born Italian cellist * Paolo Massimo Antici (1924–2003), Italian diplomat, founder of the Antici Group *Massimo Aparo (born 1953), Italian nuclear engineer *Massimo Apollonio (born 1970), former Italian racing cyclist *Massimo Ardinghi (born 1971), former professional tennis player from Italy * Massimo A ...
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose. Etymologically, the term architect derives from the Latin ''architectus'', which derives from the Greek (''arkhi-'', chief + ''tekton'', builder), i.e., chief builder. The professional requirements for architects vary from place to place. An architect's decisions affect public safety, and thus the architect must undergo specialized training consisting of advanced education and a ''practicum'' (or internship) for practical experience to earn a Occupational licensing, license to practice architecture. Practical, technical, and academic requirements for becoming an architect vary by jurisdiction, though the formal study of architecture in academic institutions has played a pivotal role in ...
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