Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento

Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento, located in the Historic Centre of Florence, houses regional collections relating to the Italian unification and the mid-18th century.

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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:

The Biblioteca comunale centrale di Firenze
The Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria
The Museo e istituto fiorentino di preistoria

In 2007, Italian Senator Paolo Amato introduced a Bill to restore of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence, partly in commemoration the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy. 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
: Bus 23: Santa Maria Nuova stop / Via Sant'Egidio
: Bus 14B: Colonna Pergola stop, between Via dei Fibbiai

Nearby points of interest

Palazzo Pucci
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
The church of Sant'Egidio
Teatro della Pergola
Palazzo Galletti, via Sant'Egidio 12
Complesso delle Oblate – 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

Other libraries and archives in the Florence area

Biblioteca Marucelliana
Biblioteca Riccardiana
Biblioteca dell'Accademia di Belle Arti
Istituto Geografico Militare
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

General references (not linked to notes)

: "InventarioI". Vol. 11, no. 2. pp. 301–333.
: "InventarioII". Vol. 12, no. 1. pp. 113–186. Cronaca 147.
: "InventarioIII". Vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 233–291. Cronaca 293.
: "Inventario IV". Vol. 20, no. 1. pp. 109–138. Le caricature 109. OPAC SBN Codice Identificativo