First staged at the La Colombaria Academy of Science and Letters, the exhibition is now presented again in an enriched version at the Humanities Library, offering the public some precious books and cartographic relics preserved in the well-endowed Marinelli Archive.
This is the personal library of Giovanni and Olinto Marinelli, two of Italy's most distinguished geographers, who spent the most fruitful years of their scientific activity in Florence, teaching at the Institute of Higher Practical and Advanced Studies. Consisting of more than a thousand volumes, many of them rare, more than 4,000 maps, several dozen periodicals and several thousand miscellanies, the collection represents a valuable heritage for the history of Italian geography.
The exhibition choice favored ancient works and in particular, some sixteenth-century works related to descriptions and representations of the world, exemplary of the long journey into the knowledge of the Earth. Works on geography are well complemented by those on astronomy and a selection of atlases and maps. A new selection of maps, representative of individual sections of the Archive's rich cartographic holdings, is presented in the Humanities Library exhibition.
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Location: Humanities Library, Piazza Brunelleschi 4 - Florence
Hours: Monday-Wednesday-Friday: 8.30 am -11.30 pm; Tuesdays and Thursdays: 8.30 am - 7 pm; Saturday: 8.30 am - 1.30 pm
Free admission
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