Detail of the new Manica Lunga in the corridor and former cells of the Benedictine monks.
The libraries of the Giorgio Cini Foundation have over 300,000 volumes and represent an extraordinary tool for study and research in the fields of history, art history, literature, music, theater, orientalism. The collections kept on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore are highly specialized and traditionally linked to the activities of the Institutes and Centers in which the scientific activity of the Foundation is divided. The spaces dedicated to the use of the library patrimony are organized around the New Manica Lunga, which, together with the seventeenth-century Library designed by Baldassare Longhena and intended as a reading room, represents the most favorable place for concentration and study. The New Manica Lunga represents the ideal “square” of“Vittore Branca ” International Center for Studies of Italian Civilization, a residential center of humanities where Italian and foreign scholars can spend a research period in the libraries of the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
The book collections of the Cini Foundation include groups on the history of Venice , literature , music , theater and melodrama , on the relations between Venice and the East and between Venice and Europe . The most significant collection, however, is the one dedicated to the history of art , which includes over 150,000 volumes and collections of periodicals with around 800 titles, of which more than 200 are current ones.
Detail of the new Manica Lunga in the corridor and former cells of the Benedictine monks.
The libraries of the Giorgio Cini Foundation have over 300,000 volumes and represent an extraordinary tool for study and research in the fields of history, art history, literature, music, theater, orientalism. The collections kept on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore are highly specialized and traditionally linked to the activities of the Institutes and Centers in which the scientific activity of the Foundation is divided. The spaces dedicated to the use of the library patrimony are organized around the New Manica Lunga, which, together with the seventeenth-century Library designed by Baldassare Longhena and intended as a reading room, represents the most favorable place for concentration and study. The New Manica Lunga represents the ideal “square” of“Vittore Branca ” International Center for Studies of Italian Civilization, a residential center of humanities where Italian and foreign scholars can spend a research period in the libraries of the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
The book collections of the Cini Foundation include groups on the history of Venice , literature , music , theater and melodrama , on the relations between Venice and the East and between Venice and Europe . The most significant collection, however, is the one dedicated to the history of art , which includes over 150,000 volumes and collections of periodicals with around 800 titles, of which more than 200 are current ones.