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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Main Author: Ivan Poli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2017-06-01
Series:Bibliothecae.it
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Online Access:https://bibliothecae.unibo.it/article/view/7026