Item #1018 La Storia della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Library History, Mario Panizzi.

La Storia della Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

Milano: De Agostini for Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 2012. Item #1018

8vo. 210 x 210 mm., [8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches].  47 pp.  Illustrated with color reproductions.  Pictorial wrappers.

History of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, beginning with its founding in the high Renaissance down to the 20th century.  Well documented overview of the library's collections, the difficulties of maintaining the library during political turmoil, and the founders and philanthropists who made it one of the great libraries in Italy.

Price: $10.00

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