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Florence<br />
places of culture<br />
Biblioteca<br />
Medicea Laurenziana<br />
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, the Reading Room designed and built by Michelangelo Buonarroti<br />
San Francesco d’Assisi - la vita e le opere,<br />
reproduction of the ms. Gaddi 112<br />
Francesco Petrarca - I Trionfi,<br />
reproduction of the ms. Strozzi 174<br />
the cloister of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana<br />
The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Medici Laurentian<br />
Library) is one of the largest collections of manuscripts<br />
in the world, and is located in downtown Florence,<br />
next to the church of San Lorenzo.<br />
It is an extraordinary architectural achievement,<br />
designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti between 1519<br />
and 1534. Among the most interesting spaces of<br />
the work as a whole, one of the most impressive is<br />
Michelangelo’s Reading Room, a spacious hallway<br />
with reading desks of choice wood, large windows<br />
that fill the area with light, and heraldic decorations<br />
on the ceiling and floor. There is also Michelangelo’s<br />
celebrated Staircase, situated in the Vestibule in front<br />
of the entrance to the Reading Room. It is a tripartite<br />
stairway, initially designed in walnut, but then realized<br />
in pietra serena (grey sandstone) in accordance with<br />
the wishes of Cosimo I de’ Medici.<br />
The Library prides itself on preserving the most<br />
valuable collections of known manuscripts, among<br />
which the Fondo Mediceo (Medici Collection), which<br />
had belonged to the Medici family; the Mediceo<br />
Palatino, from the library of Palazzo Pitti; private and<br />
ecclesiastic collections; oriental manuscripts, and the<br />
famous Ashburnam collection of manuscripts that had<br />
belonged to Lord Bertram.<br />
The Director of the Library is dr.ssa Vera Valitutto,<br />
while the person responsible for the manuscripts is<br />
dr.ssa Ida Giovanna Rao, one of the greatest experts<br />
of illuminated manuscripts. <strong>ArtCodex</strong>® can boast the<br />
support of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana for<br />
numerous reproduction projects, among which the<br />
works of San Francesco d’Assisi and Sant’Antonio<br />
Abate, in addition to the codex of the Trionfi del<br />
Petrarca (Triumphs of Petrach), illuminated by the<br />
master Apollonio di Giovanni.<br />
Sant’Antonio Abate - la vita e le opere,<br />
reproduction of the ms. Med Pal.143<br />
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