-
Country
-
IT
-
Name of institution (English)
-
Ariostea Municipal Library
-
Language of name of institution
-
ita
-
Contact information: postal address
-
Palazzo Paradiso, Via delle Scienze 17, 44121 Ferrara
-
Contact information: phone number
-
0039 0532418200
-
Contact information: email
-
info.ariostea@comune.fe.it
-
Reference number
-
N.A.
-
Type of reference number
-
Archival reference number
-
Title (English)
-
New Acquisitions
-
Title (official language of the state)
-
Nuove Accessioni
-
Language of title
-
ita
-
Creator / accumulator
-
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea
-
Date note
-
14th century/20th century
-
Language(s)
-
ita
-
lat
-
Extent
-
160 storage units
-
Type of material
-
Textual Material
-
Physical condition
-
Good
-
Scope and content
-
The Nuove Accessioni collection gathers manuscripts and codices that were incorporated into the Biblioteca Ariostea after the mid-20th century. It is an open collection composed of very heterogeneous materials, the oldest ones dating back to the 14th century. Among the records comprised in this collection, Jordi Canals Piñas (2004) found an unpublished poem written by Salomon Usque (NA 5, fols. 308r-315v). It is a laudatory canzone that the Portuguese Jewish poet addressed to Guidobaldo II Montefeltro (1514-1574), the Duke of Urbino.
-
Archival history
-
The Nuove Accessioni collection was set up in the early 1950s by Luciano Capra — at the time he was the director of the Biblioteca Ariostea — in order to preserve the new acquisitions of the library, especially manuscript materials.
-
Administrative / Biographical history
-
The Biblioteca Ariostea is located in the Palazzo Paradiso, a private palace built in 1391, owned by the Este family. In the 18th century, the Palazzo Paradiso was equipped with an Anatomical Theater, a Botanic Garden and a Library Room, founded in the early 1750s. The library was refurbished in 1801. In the same year, the Palazzo Paradiso housed the ashes of Ludovico Ariosto, who ended up giving his name to the library. The Biblioteca Ariostea also preserves a rich collection of manuscripts related to Ariosto and other local writers, such as Torquato Tasso, Vincenzo Monti or Corrado Govoni.
In 1963, the University of Ferrara was moved to the Palazzo Paradiso, while the Ariostea remained located there. In 2006, the Palazzo Paradiso and the Biblioteca reopened after a long restoration. Today, the library comprises a precious bibliographic patrimony of about 400,000 units.
-
Access points: document types
-
Poetry
-
Finding aids
-
Catalogue available for consultation in the library.
-
Author of the description
-
Carla Vieira, 2022
