Libraries in Italy

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: Italian librarians, Libraries in Rome, National libraries in Italy, Public libraries in Italy, Angelo Maria Bandini, Giacomo Casanova, The Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Laurentian Library, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Anthony Panizzi, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Petrarch's library, Biblioteca Marciana, Biblioteca Casanatense, National Central Library, National Esperanto Library and Archive, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History, Biblioteca comunale Luciano Benincasa, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Rome Quadriennale, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Royal Library of Turin, Salaborsa, Malatestiana Library, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Zanobi Acciaioli, Biblioteca Estense, Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Niccolò Alamanni, Biblioteca Angelica, Forestry Information Centre, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Turin National University Library, Sistema Bibliotecario Consortile Antonio Panizzi, Biblioteca Palatina, Laurentius Abstemius, Leonardo Mansueti. Excerpt: Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 2, 1725 - June 4, 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He was so famous as a womanizer that his name remains synonymous with the art of seduction. He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova. Giacomo was the first of six children, being followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727-1803), Giovanni Battista (1730-1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731-1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732-1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734-1783). At the time of Casanova's birth, the Republic of Venice thrived as the pleasure capital of Europe, ruled by political and religious conservatives who tolerated social vices and encouraged tourism. It was a required stop on the Grand Tour, traveled by young men coming of age, especially Englishmen. The famed Carnival, gambling houses, and beautiful courtesans were powerful drawing cards. This was the milieu that bred Casanova and made him its most famous and representative citizen. Casanova was cared for by his grandmother Marzia Baldissera while his mother toured about Europe in the theater. His father died when he was eight. As a child, Casanova suffered nosebleeds, and his grandmother sought help from a witch: "Leaving the gondola, we enter a hovel, where we find an old woman sitting on a pallet, with a black cat in her arms and five or six others around her." Though the unguent applied was ineffective, Casanova was fascinated by the incantation. Perhaps to remedy the nose