The popular circulating library of the Ferrara Savonarola Society. A paradigmatic case in post-unification Italy
This essay follows the course performed by the Savonarola Society, the philanthropical institution that founded in Ferrara the first “biblioteca popolare circolante”(a sort of subscription library for the lower classes, the first model of public library in Italy). The course started after the unity...
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Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2017-06-01
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Series: | Bibliothecae.it |
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Online Access: | https://bibliothecae.unibo.it/article/view/7026 |