Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento

For other libraries and archives relating to the Italian unification, see it:Museo del Risorgimento.

Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento (Library and Archive of the Risorgimento)
43.772909°N 11.259918°E / 43.772909; 11.259918
Location	Postal and physical address:     Via Sant'Egidio 21     50122 Firenze, FI     Italia ––––––––––––––––––––     ☎ 39 055 2480561 ––––––––––––––––––––
Type	Public
Established	August 1945
Service area	Italy Tuscany Florence
Collection
Size	30,000 item (2019), 21,000 item (2020), 27,000 item (2021), 29,700 item (2022), 3,000 item (2019), 3,000 item (2022)
Other information
Affiliation	Comune di Firenze (Municipality of Florence) Società Toscana per la Storia del Risorgimento (Tuscan Society for the History of the Risorgimento) www.toscanarisorgimento.it –––––––––––––––––––– ISIL IT-FI0106 ––––––––––––––––––––
Website	wwwext.comune.fi.it/comune/biblioteche/risorgi.htm

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

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:

1. The Biblioteca comunale centrale di Firenze (it) [Central Municipal Library of Florence]
2. The Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria (it) [the Tuscan Academy of Sciences and Letters, "La Colombaria"]
3. The Museo e istituto fiorentino di preistoria (it) [the Florentine Museum and Institute of Prehistory]

In 2007, Italian Senator Paolo Amato (it) (born 1954) during Italy's 15th Legislature (2006–2008), introduced a Bill to restore of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence, partly in commemoration the 150^th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy (2011). 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 (words translated in reverse: Florentine Area Transport Company) (it)

Bus 23: Santa Maria Nuova stop (on Via Maurizio Bufalini (it) / Via Sant'Egidio (it), between Via della Pergola and Via del Castellaccio)

Bus 14B: Colonna Pergola stop (on Via della Colonna (it), between Via dei Fibbiai (it) and Via della Pergola)

Nearby points of interest

• Palazzo Pucci
• Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
• The church of Sant'Egidio (it) (Community of Sant'Egidio)
• Teatro della Pergola
• Palazzo Galletti (it), via Sant'Egidio 12
• Complesso delle Oblate (it) (Oblate Complex) – 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 (it)

See also

• 1966 flood of the Arno

Other libraries and archives in the Florence area

• Biblioteca Marucelliana
• Biblioteca Riccardiana
• Biblioteca dell'Accademia di Belle Arti
• Istituto Geografico Militare [ Military Geographic Institute ]
• 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 (it)

Bibliography

References to linked inline notes

• Amato, Paolo, Senator (sponsor) [in Italian] (2007) [ Introduced September 3, 2007; announced during Afternoon Session. N° 211, September 12, 2007 ]. "Istituzione del Museo del Risorgimento di Firenze" [ Establishment of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence ] (PDF). Senato della Repubblica – XV Legislatura [ 15th Legislature, Italy ] (in Italian). Vol. Atto Senato n. 1780 [Senate Act N° 1780]. Rome: Tipografia del Senato (150). Retrieved March 5, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Annuario Delle Biblioteche Italiane [Yearbook Bibliography of Italian Libraries] (in Italian). Vol. Vol. 1 (of 5). Rome: Fratelli Palombi. 1969. pp. 448–449. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help) OCLC 490082618. OCLC 80425046 (all editions).
• Adorno, Francesco (1921–2010), curator [in Italian] (1983). Accademie e Istituzioni Culturali a Firenze [Academies and Cultural Institutions in Florence] (in Italian). Florence: Leo S. Olschki for the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere La Colombaria (it). Studies, 65. p. 274.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ISBN 8-8222-3180-5, 978-8-8222-3180-2. OCLC 644045498 (all editions).
• Fioravanti, Luciano, curator (1993). Guida alle Biblioteche della Provincia di Firenze [Guide to the Libraries of the Province of Florence] (in Italian). Florence: All'Insegna del Giglio. p. 333.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) ISBN 8-8781-4031-7, 978-8-8781-4031-8. OCLC 882067954, 243788025, 652229328.
• Rotondi, Clementine (1920–1991), ed. (1956). "Archivio Fenzi" [Fenzi Archive]. Archivio Storico Italiano (it) [News from the Tuscan Archives] (in Italian). Vol. Vol. 114, nos. 2 & 3. Tuscany: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki s.r.l. pp. 320–682. ISSN 2036-4660. JSTOR 26248511. Retrieved March 2, 2021 – via JSTOR. Papers of Emanuele Orazio Fenzi donated around 1955–1956 to the Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento. Documents span 1851 to 1923: travel diaries, translations, copies of agricultural writings, critical bibliography of Libya (1867–1922); letters from family and others to Emanuele Orazio Fenzi; correspondence between Emanuele Orazio Fenzi and Gino Bartolommei Gioli (1912–1923), 6 pieces. Rotondi, the bibliographer, was, at the time, working at the National Union Catalog Center (Petrucciani, Alberto. "Rotondi, Clementina". Dizionario Bio-Bibliografico Dei Bibliotecari Italiani Del XX Secolo. Retrieved March 4, 2021). {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help); |volume= has extra text (help); External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Witt, Mario M. (né Mario Max Wittkower; 1925–1994) (Spring 1967). "The Flood of 4 November 1966". The Book Collector (8vo). 16 (1). London: 13–25. "Some 7000 volumes were inundated by the waters". The author was the son of Rudolph Wittkower (1901–1971), a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. Mario's mother, Margot Holzmann (1902–1995), was an interior designer and art historian specializing in neo-Palladian architecture and Italian Renaissance and Baroque period. Mario's wife, Fiammetta Miranda Olschki (maiden; 1921–2011), was a granddaughter of Leo S. Olschki (1861–1940), Florentine book publisher.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link)   ISSN 0006-7237 (publication). OCLC 5915385, 888883059, 822834524 (article).
• Podcast, Mario M. Witt (March 6, 2020). "The Florence Flood of 4 November 1966". The Book Collector (Podcast). – via SoundCloud. Retrieved March 3, 2021. Published in the article, "Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento. Some 7000 volumes were inundated by the waters," on page 20, was omitted at 22:27 in the podcast. Nonetheless, the narrative chronicles the overall extent of damage to archives and artifacts.{{cite podcast}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

General references (not linked to notes)

• Rotondi, Clementine (1920–1991); Camerani Marri, Giulia (1912–2004) (eds.). "Le Stampe della Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento di Firenze" [ The prints of the Library and Archive of the Risorgimento in Florence ]. Rassegna Storica Toscana [Tuscan Historical Review] (4 monographs). Quarterly since 1955; Biannual since 1962 (in Italian). Florence: Leo S. Olschki.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) ISSN 0033-9881 (journal). OCLC 558537849 (all editions) (journal).

"Inventario    I". Vol. 11, no. 2 (July–December 1965). pp. 301–333.

"Inventario   II". Vol. 12, no. 1 (January–June 1966). pp. 113–186. Cronaca 147.

"Inventario  III". Vol. 12, no. 2 (July–December 1966). pp. 233–291. Cronaca 293.

"Inventario IV". Vol. 20, no. 1 (January–June 1974). pp. 109–138. Le caricature 109. OPAC SBN Codice Identificativo IT\ICCU\RAV\2046996 (article)