Places to see in ( Ravenna - Italy ) Istituzione Biblioteca Classense

Описание: Places to see in ( Ravenna - Italy ) Istituzione Biblioteca Classense

The Classense Library is a historic library located in the city of Ravenna . Since 2002 it has been entrusted in management to a specially constituted institution. The name refers to Sant'Apollinare in Classe , a basilica with an adjoining convent of the Camaldolese Congregation located 5 km south-east of the city. In 1512 the battles of the Battle of Ravenna closely threatened the life of the monks. They therefore decided to move to the city of Ravenna, which was then protected by a wall. In the current Via Baccarini, where they had properties, they built the new Abbazia Classense (starting from 1513 ) over the former Polenta hospital of Santa Maria della Misericordia.

Inside the monks transferred the manuscripts possessed. In the seventeenth century the abbot Marino Bonetti († 1664) made a first collection of printed volumes . In the eighteenth century the abbot Pietro Canneti (1704-1714) enriched the monastic library of precious codes and incunabula founding the «Library of Camaldolese».

Since 1803 , the date of the Napoleonic suppression of ecclesiastical goods belonging to various religious orders, the Camaldolese monks and other religious of abbeys and convents citizens had to merge their book sources into what became the newborn Civic Library of Ravenna, later renamed the Classense Library.

Today, within the library are still preserved codes and incunabula in special funds, along with manuscripts and rare books, ancient maps, engravings, vintage photographs. They are flanked by a wealth of modern and contemporary books. The estimated total assets amount to about 800,000 volumes, and is considered among the main ones in Italy. Among the main funds in the library we can mention: the Corrado Ricci Fund which includes volumes, maps, correspondence, photographs and graphics; the Luigi Rava Fund which includes the library, the resurgence correspondence, the work papers and the private correspondence; the Leone Vicchi Fund consisting of a collection of printed works by Vincenzo Monti and critical essays on the Monti, to which a collection of handwritten papers by Cesare Ubaldini is added; the Manara Valgimigli Collection consisting of the personal and working library of Valgimigli, to which a correspondence of about 6000 pieces and the photographic fund are joined; the Fondo Tommaso Bertelè (1892-1971) composed of about 8500 printed volumes, the Fondo Mario Mazzotti composed of the library, the work papers to which a conspicuous photographic background is added.

The library also houses two museum collections: the "Museo del Risorgimento" and the "Museo Dantesco". Inside the library there is also the Municipal Historical Archive of Ravenna, officially established in 1913 with director Silvio Bernicoli. The documentation of the Archive includes the volumes of stationery, secretarial, accounting, depository, cadastre and census of the Community, the collection of ancient parchments, the collection of notices and topographical maps. To these series is added the administrative correspondence and the acts of the Council and Council from 1796 to 1973. In the Municipal Historical Archive are deposited the Lovatelli Fund, the Gamba Fund, the Texts Rasponi Fund, the Fund of the Mill of San Mamante, the Fund Bernicoli and the Trapani photographic fund.

Since January 2011, the multimediateca section (which stores DVDs, CDs and videotapes ) has been moved from via Corrado Ricci to the main library, inaugurating a complete renovation of the modern books section. The newspaper library (which contains newspapers and magazines) is located in via Guido da Polenta , 4 next to the other main library in Ravenna, the Oriani Library. Livia Zaccagnini is the President of the Classense Library. Director of the library is Maurizio Tarantino from 23 March 2017 .

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