Biblioteca E Archivio Del Risorgimento

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History

The Library and Archive, owned and operated by the city of Florence, was founded in August 1945 as a restoration and replacement of the Museo del Risorgimento di Firenze founded in 1901. As of 2020, the Library and Archive's holdings include about 30,000 volumes of heritage documents, 550 volumes of periodicals, two 16th century books, ten current periodicals, one hundred discontinued periodicals, bibliographical funds, manuscripts, and a large iconographic collection from the Risorgimento period.

Collections were seriously damaged by the 1966 flood of the Arno. Nonetheless, the facility and collections were restored and the Library and Archive reopened in 1969.

The Library and Archive is in the same building as:

1. The Biblioteca comunale centrale di Firenze (it) entral Municipal Library of Florence
2. The Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria (it) he Tuscan Academy of Sciences and Letters, "La Colombaria"
3. The Museo e istituto fiorentino di preistoria (it) he Florentine Museum and Institute of Prehistory/ol>

   In 2007, Italian Senator Paolo Amato (it) (born 1954) during Italy's 15th Legislature (2006–2008), introduced a Bill to restore of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence, partly in commemoration the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy (2011). The Bill states that the Museum had been open to the public only nineteen years, from 1909 though 1938, and was dismantled in 1945, after World War II.
   

   
   

   Selected collections

   
   * Fenzi archives
   

   
   

   Access by public transit

   
   * ATAF – Azienda Trasporti dell'Area Fiorentina (: Florentine Area Transport Company) (it)
   :: Bus 23: Santa Maria Nuova stop (on Via Maurizio Bufalini (it) / Via Sant'Egidio (it), between Via della Pergola and Via del Castellaccio)
   :: Bus 14B: Colonna Pergola stop (on Via della Colonna (it), between Via dei Fibbiai (it) and Via della Pergola)
   

   
   

   Nearby points of interest

   
   * Palazzo Pucci
   * Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
   * The church of Sant'Egidio (it) (Community of Sant'Egidio)
   * Teatro della Pergola
   * Palazzo Galletti (it), via Sant'Egidio 12
   * Complesso delle Oblate (it) (Oblate Complex) – former monastery dating back to 1288, now, as of 2007, the municipally owned and operated Oblate library, a state-of-the-art multifunctional center.
   * Palazzo Bastogi (it)
   

   
   

   See also

   
   * 1966 flood of the Arno
   

   
   

   Other libraries and archives in the Florence area

   
   * Biblioteca Marucelliana
   * Biblioteca Riccardiana
   * Biblioteca dell'Accademia di Belle Arti
   * Istituto Geografico Militare ilitary Geographic Institute* Laurentian Library
   * Library at the British Institute of Florence
   * Library and Archives at the Accademia dei Georgofili
   * Library at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
   * Library of the Gabinetto Vieusseux
   * Library at the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University
   * National Central Library
   

   
   

   More comprehensive list (in Italian)

   
   * Biblioteche di Firenze (it)
   

   
   

   Bibliography

   
   

   Notes

   
   

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   General references (not linked to notes)

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   : "InventarioI". Vol. 11, no. 2 (July–December 1965). pp. 301–333.
   : "InventarioII". Vol. 12, no. 1 (January–June 1966). pp. 113–186. Cronaca 147.
   : "InventarioIII". Vol. 12, no. 2 (July–December 1966). pp. 233–291. Cronaca 293.
   : "Inventario IV". Vol. 20, no. 1 (January–June 1974). pp. 109–138. Le caricature 109. OPAC SBN Codice Identificativo (article)

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