Library of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia
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The library of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is located in Venice in the Sestiere Castello (Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5252). Since 1982 it has also been formally the city library of the historic center, a role that it had already taken on when the building was opened to the public at the beginning of the 20th century. With the formal transfer of functions, however, cooperation intensified, for example in the field of systematic cataloging or library services throughout the municipality.
In 1999 a multimedia library was opened, which is maintained together with the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei . Since 2002 there have been 15 computer terminals with access to the OPAC .
Today the total stock comprises more than 300,000 volumes, with more than 32,000 works accessible in the reading room alone . There are also over 350 current periodicals . After all, the house has an extensive musical collection. In addition, public concerts often make the institution famous.
The company is technically, organizationally and personally geared to both scientific needs and general interlibrary loan and has a room for the visually impaired and the blind .
history
Conte Giovanni Querini Stampalia (1799–1869) bequeathed his private book collection to the city of Venice in his will of 1868. He also determined that the library should remain open when other facilities are already closed. This was expressly valid for the evening hours (today until 11 p.m.) and for public holidays. However, it is closed on Mondays. In total, the house is open 87 hours a week.
The Querini Stampalia family had acquired and preserved the book collection over seven centuries. This includes numerous manuscripts, incunabula , early prints and rare books, but also maps and engravings . The oldest pieces are the Capitulare nauticum (13th-16th centuries), the Promissio contra maleficia (14th century), the Fables of Aesop (14th century), a codex with the privileges of the Venetians in Syria (13th- 14th centuries) . Century) and various Commissioni ducali .
The humanist Lauro Querini (1515–77), Cardinal Angelo Maria Querini (1680–1755), who also founded the Biblioteca Queriniana di Brescia and who also corresponded with Frederick II of Prussia and with Voltaire , ultimately made special contributions to the book collection Andrea Querini (1710-1795).
Leonardo Perosa (1834–1904), librarian from 1880 to 1904, arranged the manuscripts and published the Catalogo dei codici manoscritti della Biblioteca Querini Stampalia in July 1883 , which is also in the Repertorio delle persone, dei luoghi e delle cose più notevoli contenute nei codici mss. della Biblioteca Querini Stampalia from 1884 and is still in use today.
Arnaldo Segarizzi followed him as librarian (1905–1924). He adapted the catalogs to international standards and created new ones accordingly. In addition, he reorganized the spatial arrangement of the holdings. The directors Manlio Dazzi (1926–1957) and Giuseppe Mazzariol (1957–1974) turned the library with their works of art into an important cultural institution in Venice, the latter commissioned Carlo Scarpa with the renovation of the ground floor and the new landscaping.
literature
- Prosdocimo Terrassan, Carlo Scarpa: La Fondazione Querini Stampalia a Venezia , Mondadori Electa, Milan 2006.
- Catalogo della Pinacoteca della Fondazione scientifica Querini Stampalia , N. Pozza, Venice 1979.
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Remarks
- ↑ Almanacco dei Bibliotecari Italiani , 1969, p. 72.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 15.8 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 31 ″ E