| | | | | others were bought in the market. The library grew in |
| When You book a guided tour in Florence Tours in | | | | 1809 with the suppression of monasteries and at the |
| Florence - Tuscany, with us You'll realize how beautiful | | | | same time, through purchases of Bandini, played in Italy |
| and magic this town is. | | | | and abroad, while retaining the character of the |
| The Marucelliana Library is a public library in Florence | | | | general library collection, accentuated the field of the |
| (owned by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture) with | | | | culture Florentine and Tuscan. The Library holds nearly |
| access from Via Cavour. Established by the will of | | | | 40,000 volumes, 500 incunabula about more than 2,000 |
| Abbot Francis Marucelli, from which it is named, is the | | | | manuscripts and 10,000 letters and documents. The |
| result of the donation of his rich and large personal | | | | Library also has a curious bibliographical works, |
| library. Alessandro, the nephew of Marucelli, | | | | composed of 112 volumes and called Mare Magnum, a |
| commissioned the construction of the building to the | | | | work put together by the same founder of the Library, |
| architect Alessandro Dori. The Library which was open | | | | which not only records all transactions that had, but it |
| to the public September 18, 1752, becoming the first | | | | was entrusted to a summary of this Bibliography |
| library open to the general culture to a broad audience | | | | monumental, almost all written by himself. In |
| as you can still read the inscription on the facade: | | | | Marucelliana Library there are also preserved |
| "Bibliotheca Marucellorum publicae maxime pauperum | | | | collections of literary work by Enrico Nencioni, writer, |
| utility" (Library of Marucelli for public use, especially the | | | | poet and critic 1837-1896 and the portrait of Francis |
| poor ").The first librarian was Angelo Maria Bandini, | | | | Marucelli, by David Canoniche of Antwerp. By law a |
| who in about 50 years aversaw the activities and | | | | copy of every book printed in the province of |
| increased it with other funds. With the suppression of | | | | Florence, arrive to the Library. Among the manuscript |
| religious institutes of the eighteenth and nineteenth | | | | collections stands that of Antonio Francesco Gori for |
| century, other large library collections arrived at the | | | | the history of archeology, or the autographs by |
| library (such as the library of the Badia Fiorentina), | | | | Francesco Redi for the history of science. |