Biblioteca Augusta

The Biblioteca Augusta (est. 1582) is a public library in Perugia, Italy, founded by Prospero Podiani [it].^[1] It opened in 1623, housed in the former Palazzo Meniconi on the Piazza Piccola.^[2] It currently operates from the Palazzo Conestabile della Staffa [it] in the Porta Sole [it] area of the city.

Entrance to the Biblioteca Augusta in Perugia, photographed c.2010

References

1. "Biblioteca comunale Augusta". Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane [it] (Registry of Italian Libraries) (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
2. Treccani 2015.

Bibliography

in English

• Edward Edwards (1869), "Brief Notices of Collectors: Prosper Podiani", Free Town Libraries: Their Formation, Management, and History in Britain, France, Germany & America, New York: J. Wiley, OCLC 1385548
• Ennio Sandal (1990). "Endowed Municipal Public Libraries". Libraries & Culture. 25 (3: Libraries and Librarianship in Italy). USA: 358–371. JSTOR 25542275.
• Angela Nuovo (2010). "Private Libraries in Sixteenth-century Italy". In Bettina Wagner [in German]; Marcia Reed (eds.). Early Printed Books as Material Objects. IFLA Publications. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-025324-5.
• Cristina Dondi; Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni (2016). "Researching the Origin of Perugia's Public Library (1582/1623) before and after Material Evidence in Incunabula". Quaerendo. 46 (2). Netherlands.

in Italian

• Maria Pecugi Fop (1974). "Gli incunaboli del Fondo Podiani nella Biblioteca Augusta". Bollettino della Deputazione di Storia Patria per l'Umbria (in Italian). 71.
• Giovanni Cecchini (1978). La Biblioteca Augusta del Comune di Perugia (in Italian). Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
• "Prospero Podiani", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian), 2015