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Biblioteca civica

Via Cappello, 43, Verona, Italy
Tel: +39 0458079710
 

The public library was established in 1792 and holds over 700,000 works including books, early printed material, manuscripts, prints, pamphlets, historical documents and collections of magazines and journals. The hall is a protomoteca, or rather a collection of decorative elements consisting of the ornamental heads of illustrious Veronese characters, once kept in the Loggia del Consiglio. Among the most valuable holdings id a ninth century copy of the "Istituzioni di Giustiniano" and the "Omelie di S.Agostino" from the same period. Among the early printed material there is a "Lattanzio" from 1465 that was the first dated work to be printed in Italy.

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