Italy has 11

national libraries A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant wo ...

. These include: * The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (''Rome National Central Library''), 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 ...

, and the

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze The National Central Library of Florence ( it, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, BNCF) is a public national library in Florence, the largest in Italy and one of the most important in Europe, one of the two central libraries of Italy, alon ...

(''National Central Library of Florence'') in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

, which are the two central national libraries of Italy. * The Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III di Napoli (National Library of Naples),

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark ( it, italic=no, Biblioteca Marciana, but in historical documents commonly referred to as ) is a public library in Venice, Italy. It is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositori ...

di Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense di Milano, Biblioteca nazionale universitaria di Torino, Biblioteca nazionale Sagarriga Visconti-Volpi di Bari, Biblioteca nazionale di Cosenza, Biblioteca nazionale di Potenza In total, 9 national libraries exist, out of 46 state libraries.

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