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Accademia dei Georgofili
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Logge degli Uffizi Corti - 50122 Firenze
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The Accademia dei Georgofili is an educational institution established in 1753. The academy is best known for promoting, amongst scholars and landowners, the studying of agronomy, forestry, economy, geography and agriculture. The library holds 92,000 volumes including monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and a collection of 100,00 images.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Archivio Fotografico Toscano
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Via Santa Caterina 17 - 59100 Prato
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The AFT consists of a collection of photographs dating from the second half of the 19th century to the 1990s, made of approx. 200,000 images. It includes material both linked to the Tuscan territory and of national and international interest. It also has a large collection of historical museum items and a newspaper library focusing on photography with Italian and foreign publications.
SBPP catalogue.
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Biblioteca dell'Accademia della Crusca
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Via di Castello, 46, 50141 Firenze
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Born in Florence between 1582 and 1583, the Accademia della Crusca is one of the main points of reference for research on the Italian language both nationally and internationally.
OneSearch SBART.
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Biblioteca della Casa Buonarroti
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Via Ghibellina, 70, 50122 Firenze
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Library consists of approximately 11,000 volumes, 41 magazines, and 200 rare books, including 44 from the 16th century. In addition, the Library includes the precious 169 volumes of the Buonarroti Archive, whose consultation is strictly limited to specialists.
It is also possible to consult a photo library organized by author, consisting of over 10,000 pieces, and dedicated mainly to the work of Michelangelo but also to the artists of the Italian and Flemish Renaissance.
No online catalogue.
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Biblioteca della Fondazione Stensen
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V.le Don Minzoni 25/G, 50129 Firenze
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This library builds upon the collection gathered by the Jesuit fathers of Florence. Among its holdings, it hosts the Guido Manacorda collection (1879 –1965), Raffaele Ciampini collection (1895-1976), 3000 volumes by Jesuit authors (for example works by and about Teilhard de Chardin), all issue of journals such as La civiltà Cattolica and Etudes.
Extensive material on the history of Italian, French and American cinema with journals such as Cineforum, Cahiers du Cinema, Positif, Duel, SegnoCinema, Bianco e nero.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Biblioteca della Toscana Pietro Leopoldo
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Piazza dell'Unità italiana, 1 50123 Firenze
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The library has approximately 160,000 monographs, 200 paper periodicals and hundreds of electronic periodicals, numerous legal and specialist databases mainly on topics relating to Public Administration: law, economics, political science, sociology, demography, education, statistics, communication. There are numerous funds and specialized sections, namely: Tuscan Identity section, Novoli section, Crocetti library, Oriana Fallaci collection, Equal Opportunities collection, Communication collection, maps.
COBIRE catalogue.
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Biblioteca degl'Innocenti
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Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 12, 50122 Firenze
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The Innocenti Library Alfredo Carlo Moro specialises in the rights of children and adolescents and was established in 2001 as a cooperation project between the Istituto degli Innocenti and the Innocenti Research Center of UNICEF , now the Office of Research, in agreement with the Italian government. The Library, named in 2009 to Alfredo Carlo Moro, juvenile judge and creator of the national documentation and analysis centre for children and adolescents, carries out the reference service of the national centre and the regional documentation centre for children and adolescence.
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Biblioteca dell'Istituto Geografico Militare (IGM)
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Via Cesare Battisti, 10/12, 50121 Firenze
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The library was established in 1865. The library collections include: - around 120,000 books pertaining to the main disciplinary areas of geographical interest (geography, geodesy, cartography, topography, astronomy, history of cartography, explorations and discoveries, travel, anthropology, ethnography, urban planning, territorial planning, computer science, GIS, etc.) and to the Armed Forces (publications of a historical-military, historical-political, legal, economic-social, administrative, linguistic, sociological nature, etc.); - a collection of atlases from 1570 to the present, consisting of 700 copies; - a map library, consisting of pre-unification and modern maps, the latter coming largely from exchanges with similar foreign cartographic bodies; - a newspaper library that includes about 750 national and foreign newspapers, almost all of which come from the exchange activity with the two magazines published by the IGM: L'Universo and Bollettino di geodesia e scienze affini; - collections of photographs from 1865 onwards.
SBN BNCF catalogue.
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Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Fiesole - Fondo Bandini
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Piazza Mino da Fiesole, 1, 50014 Fiesole FI
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The Bandini Fund of the Library of the Episcopal Seminary of Fiesole contains the personal library of Canon Angelo Maria Bandini, left to the Seminary by testament in 1803.
The heterogeneous nature of the collection reflects the multiple interests of the great eighteenth-century bibliophile and humanist. Religious works predominate, but philosophy, Italian, Latin and Greek literature, law, medicine and history are also well represented.
1716 editions have been catalogued, for a total of 1982 volumes.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Biblioteca dell'Agenzia italiana per la cooperazione e lo sviluppo (former Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare)
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Largo Louis Braille, 4, 50131 Firenze |
This library was established in 1908 and specialises in tropical and sub-tropical agriculture and economics, gathering over 131,000 volumes and 800 periodical magazines.
The photographic archive and the documentation centre hold historic information on agriculture in the tropics, especially in the former Italian colonies.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Biblioteca delle Oblate
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Via dell' Oriuolo, 24, 50122 Firenze
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The Biblioteca delle Oblate is a public reading library , inaugurated on May 25, 2007, in the centre of Florence a few steps from Piazza Duomo, housed in the suggestive fourteenth-century former convent of the Oblate from which it takes its name.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Biblioteca femminista - Associazione fiesolana2b
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Via Fiesolana 2b, 50122 Firenze
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This community-led library is specialised in the works of women writers and scholars, and is dedicated to gender studies, to feminism and the feminist movement, to issues related to discrimination, stereotypes and gender violence.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento
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Via Sant'Egidio, 21, 50122 Firenze
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Founded in August 1945 following the transformation of the Museo del Risorgimento in Florence, which had been established in 1901, into the library and Archive of the Risorgimento. The library's documentary heritage includes approximately 30,000 volumes, 550 volumes of periodicals, two 16th century books, ten current periodicals and one hundred discontinued periodicals. In addition to the bibliographical funds and manuscripts, the library also preserves a large iconographic collection from the Risorgimento period.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Biblioteca Leonardiana
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Via Giorgio La Pira, 1, 50059 Vinci FI
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Research and documentation centre for Leonardian studies.
IRIS catalogue.
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Biblioteca Luigi Crocetti
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Piazza Filippo Brunelleschi, 4, 50121 Firenze
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The Regional Library of Librarianship, Archival Science and Documentation Science, now housed within the Humanities Library of the University of Florence, in the Brunelleschi complex.
OneSearch SBART catalogue.
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Biblioteca Marucelliana
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Via Cavour, 50129 43-47 Firenze
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The library holds over a million volumes, including 490 incunabula and 7,995 cinquecentine, 2,927 manuscripts, and 69,345 personal letters and papers of interest. It contains nearly 53,000 etchings, and 3,200 drawings from the 16th-19th centuries, and 9,000 librettos of melodrammas, and numerous series of journals and newspapers. Among its treasures are the papers of the anatomist Francesco Redi, the naturalist Giacinto Cestoni, and some of the letters of Antonio Vallisneri.
SBN BNCF catalogue.
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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
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Piazza San Lorenzo, 9, 50123 Firenze
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The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, belonging to the Italian Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo is an international research library specialising in the conservation and study of its manuscript and rare book collections.
SBN BNCF catalogue.
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Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
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Piazza dei Cavalleggeri, 1, 50122 Firenze
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The National Central Library of Florence is a public national library, the largest in Italy and one of the most important in Europe, one of the two central libraries of Italy, along with the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Rome.
SBN BNCF catalogue.
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Biblioteca Riccardiana
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Via de' Ginori, 10, 50123 Firenze
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The exceptionally precious manuscript heritage features autograph works by Petrarch, Boccaccio, Savonarola and the greatest Humanists (Alberti, Ficino, Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola) as well as splendid illuminated codices, magnificent bindings and precious nuclei from other aristocratic and humanist libraries, the correspondence of famous men, and numerous rare works related to the theatre, the pharmacopoeia, travel, history and literature.
SBN BNCF catalogue.
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FAF TOSCANA
Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia
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Villa Fabbricotti, via Vittorio Emanuele II, 64, 50134 Firenze
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FAF Toscana is the organization founded by the Tuscany Region in 2020 for the conservation, management and enhancement of the Alinari photographic heritage. Fratelli Alinari is one of the world's oldest photographic firms, founded in Florence, Italy in 1852. Its archives contain 5.5 million photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to modern digital photos from around the world.
Their own catalogue is available on the website.
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Fondazione di Studi Storici “Filippo Turati”
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13, Via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 50121 Firenze
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The Library, consists of approximately 115,000 volumes, and the newspaper library collects 5,170 discontinued periodicals and 150 current periodicals. Of particular importance are the funds belonging to Italian historical figures such as Agazzi, Arfé, Bassi, D’Aragona, Della Mea, Di Nolfo, Finocchiaro, Lombardi, Mondolfo, Pieraccini, Saragat, Silone, Zagari. In addition to this, the Fondazione holds an extensive archive about Sandro Pertini and its considerable documentation concerning the events of anti-fascism and the Resistance. The collection has reached the size of 6,500 volumes and pamphlets. A part of this collection (1,600 volumes, in addition to a painting by Guttuso) was donated to the Library of the University of Siena in 1992.
SBN BNCF catalogue.
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Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini
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Via Ser Lapo Mazzei, 37, 59100 Prato
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The International Institute of Economic History "F. Datini" is considered the most important international institution operating in the field of economic history of the pre-industrial age (13th-18th century). The Foundation hosts a library specialized in economic history of the pre-industrial age. The newspaper library
holds newspapers published in the main European countries and the Western world, largely not held elsewhere in the libraries of the public reading systems of Prato and Florence. It is also possible to consult a collection of digitised photographs and an online image database of economic and social history.
SBPP catalogue.
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Fondazione Primo Conti -Centro di Documentazione e Ricerche sulle Avanguardie Storiche
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Villa le Coste, via G. Dupré 18, 50014 Fiesole
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The library holds numerous volumes consisting mostly of exhibition catalogues, publications of studies relating to the pictorial-literary movements of the early twentieth century in Italy and Europe, editions of correspondence between various figures of twentieth-century culture. The archive holds numerous funds that constitute the documentary section of the Foundation and that belonged to the protagonists of the cultural scene of the early twentieth century: among others, Papini, Conti, Pavolini, Carocci, Contri, Meriano, Ferrero, Viani, Pea, Sanminiatelli, Balilla Pratella and a book collection on Futurism made mostly of first editions.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Fondazione Spadolini Nuova Antologia
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Via del Pian dei Giullari, 36, 50125 Firenze
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The library of the Spadolini Nuova Antologia Foundation is composed of approximately 100,000 volumes of history, politics, culture from the Enlightenment to the present. They are located in three separate locations, according to the provisions of its founder, Giovanni Spadolini.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario - G.P. Vieusseux
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Piazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Firenze
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The Gabinetto Vieusseux offers access to primary sources and materials (books and journals) specialised in the history of the Italian and European 19th century, especially dealing with cultural and literary history. A list of scholarly journals in all languages published during the 19th century is available.
SDIAF catalogue.
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IRIS Associazione di biblioteche storico-artistiche e umanistiche dell’area fiorentina
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The IRIS Consortium is headquartered at the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Firenze
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The IRIS Consortium, founded in 1993, is an association of Florentine area art history and humanities libraries consisting today of eight members. The founding members are: the Berenson Library (Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), the Library of the Dutch University Institute for Art History, and the Library of the Uffizi (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Ex SSPSAE Firenze). The consortium has expanded with the arrival of the Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (1997), the «Ugo Procacci» Library of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (1999), the Leonardiana Library at Vinci (2007), the Library of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello (2017) and the Library of the Fondazione Rossana e Carlo Pedretti (2019).
The member institutes have joined together to create a union catalogue (a shared bibliographic database) available in Internet to scholars all over the world. The IRIS catalog, by virtue of the highly specialised nature of these institute libraries, offers a resource unique in its richness, focussing on the Italian Renaissance, its art history (including material on the conservation and restoration of art objects), its history, literature, philosophy, political thought, science and music.
IRIS catalogue.
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Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento
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Piazza degli Strozzi, 5, 50123 Firenze
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The Library of the National Institute of Renaissance Studies is located on the main floor of Palazzo Strozzi, in the heart of the historic centre of Florence.
IRIS catalogue.
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Istituto Storico della Resistenza in Toscana (Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza e dell'Età contemporanea)
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Via Giosuè Carducci, 5/37, 50121 Firenze
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The Historical Institute of the Resistance in Tuscany (ISRT) is a non-profit organisation associated with the National Institute for the history of the liberation movement in Italy. Through its library and archive the Institute promotes the study of anti-fascism and the Resistance and more widely the knowledge of Italian contemporary history.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
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Via Giuseppe Giusti, 44, 50121 Firenze
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The Art Libraries Network Florence - Munich - Rome (Kubikat) gives online access to the catalogues of these three German research libraries specialising in the history of art, one of which is in Florence.
Their own catalogue is available on the website.
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Mediateca Toscana
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Via San Gallo 25, 50129 Firenze
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Mediateca Toscana is a multimedia and digital library specialized on cinema and audiovisual which, together with the regional government, Lanterne Magiche, Cinema La Compagnia, Toscana Film Commission and Manifatture Digitali Cinema, organises the activities of the Fondazione Sistema Toscana to promote cinema culture.
Their own catalogue is available on the website.
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Médiathèque at the Institut français Firenze
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Piazza Ognissanti, 2, 50123 Firenze |
The media library is the leading place for the promotion of French culture in Florence thanks to its policy of acquiring the most recent and award-winning books and films. It holds French newspapers, magazines, DVDs (fiction and documentary), literature, social sciences and art books, history books, children's literature, comics and documents suitable for all levels of French.
SBPP catalogue.
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Museo Galileo
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Piazza dei Giudici, 1, 50122 Firenze
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Primary source materials, online database catalogues and e-sources dealing with the History of Science.
Their own catalogue is available on the website.
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Società Dantesca Italiana
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Via dell'Arte della Lana, 1, 50123 Firenze
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The library of the Italian Dante Society.
SDIAF catalogue.
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The Berenson Library
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Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Firenze
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The Berenson Library is one of the world’s leading resources for research on the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in Italy.
IRIS catalogue for print books. Their own catalogue is available on the website to search for eBooks and databases.
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The Harold Acton Library at the British Institute of Florence
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Lungarno Guicciardini, 9, 50125 Firenze
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One of the largest English language lending libraries in Europe. It is a humanities library, with strong holdings in English and Italian literature, history, and history of art. There are also significant collections of travel writing and other memoirs from the long engagement of the British with Florence, including an important Archive containing the papers and books of key figures from the resident English Colony of the early 20th Century.
SDIAF catalogue.
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Università degli Studi di Firenze: Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo
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Coordinamento Centrale Biblioteche: Via Gino Capponi, 7, 50121 Firenze
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The library of the University of Florence, incorporating social science, humanities and special collections libraries.
EUI members accessing UniFi libraries are allowed to borrow up to 20 items for a maximum duration of 3 months, depending on the type of material and lending conditions.
OneSearch SBART catalogue.
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