The first 1.500 copies are online.
The dusting of the Leopardiana Library in Recanati, located in the building where Giacomo Leopardi was born and lived (Recanati, 29 June 1798 - Naples 14 June 1837), has been completed.
The project was carried out by the Superintendency of Archives and Bibliography of the Marche, under the direction of Superintendent Benedetto Luigi Compagnoni, and the RUP, sole project manager, Rosangela Guerra.
The library, where Leopardi spent his youth dedicating himself to study, includes an ancient book heritage of around twenty thousand works, between the 16th and 19th centuries, of which Sab Marche has curated the inventory and cataloguing of 1.
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The volumes subject to computerized cataloging can be searched in the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) Online Catalogue, on the web page "Biblio Marche Sud. Catalogo unificato delle Province di Ascoli Piceno, Fermo e Macerata" (https://bibliomarchesud.it/opac/.do) where you can view, among other things, the information relating to the French edition of Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu, L'élève de la nature par m. Beaurieu (Paris 1793), not present in the national catalogue of the Bibliothèque de France.
The Leopardi Library is exceptional for the unique works it contains, which testify to the historical period and cultural context in which Monaldo lived and worked. Some volumes appear to have belonged to 54 different individuals before arriving in Recanati.
Due to the Napoleonic suppression of religious institutions, the Leopardi library was enriched with copies that Count Monaldo was able to purchase from the rich libraries of convents and religious settlements in the local and national territory, such as from the Congregation of the Passionists of Recanati and various Jesuit colleges, from Loreto to Rome.
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