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Fondo Antico

It currently houses 12,800 volumes and is currently digitizing the most prestigious manuscripts and printed books.

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The "Giuseppe Ghizzi" Ancient Fund is made up of the original core of the Municipal Library of Castiglion Fiorentino, founded in 1873 "for the benefit of scholars and the education of youth". The Ancient Fund, composed of volumes on legal, religious and philosophical subjects, is located in the rooms of Palazzo Pretorio.

It currently houses 12,800 volumes and the most prestigious manuscripts and printed books are being digitized.

Among the most valuable works, we recall a 13th-century antiphonary, with very rich illuminated decorations attributable to the Arezzo school; the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the work of the Flemish cartographer and geographer Abramo Ortelio, a systematic mapping of the globe created through a collection of maps from all over the world and drawn by various authors, printed for the first time in 1570; or the Hortus Siccus Pisanus, a herbal dating back to the first half of the 18th century.

It can be visited from Monday to Friday morning by reservation.

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Via del Tribunale 9
52043 Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)

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