"Pietro De Nava" historical library

It could improve

Service more than poor, impossible to contact them even by phone for the slightest information. What a disappointment and they consider themselves a worse caste than notaries.

The service they offer is poor .. in particular a lady who always accuses back pain when asked for books works there .. since they are paid well, they should give a wake up call

Please note that the exact address of the Municipal Library "Pietro De Nava" of Reggio Calabria is as follows: Via Demetrio Tripepi, 9 (not Domenico, also because there is another via di Reggio with that toponym and it is a side street of the VILLA COMUNALE di Reggio). Thank you and greetings

The municipal library "Pietro De Nava" of Reggio Calabria, was established by decree of Ferdinando I king of the Two Sicilies on March 31, 1818, with the denomination of Biblioteca Ferdinandiana. The original nucleus of books, made up of several hundred units coming largely from the eighteenth-century private library of the abbot Antonio Spizzicagigli and from the personal collection of the archbishop Monsignor Alessandro Tommasini, was placed on the ground floor of the archbishop's palace in Piazza Duomo in rooms granted from the Curia. In the Umbertine period, the Institute changed its name and headquarters. The library, called "Diego Vitrioli", was housed at the Royal Technical Institute in rooms annexed to the Civic Museum where it remained until 1907 when it was transferred to the former church of San Gregorio Magno. After the 1908 earthquake, the surviving patrimony was brought to the fire station in the ruins of the castle and remained there until the outbreak of the First World War, when it was transferred to the Scuola Normale Feminale, the current Magistral Institute. In 1928 the Library was located in the "Pietro De Nava" villa, built in 1917 and donated to the city by Giuseppe De Nava. The second half of the twentieth century saw the construction of the new building annexed to the villa which became the headquarters of the library. Today the "De Nava", almost two centuries after its establishment, can be defined as a historical conservation library, with a prevalent and traditional humanistic focus, but also a modern structure of general culture. The oldest documents are part of the "parchment fund", which is extremely valuable, which includes 147 parchments from the XIII-XIX centuries: chapters, letters and privileges granted by the various sovereigns, graduation diplomas and papal bulls. The oldest parchment dates back to 1285. The "Manuscripts and ancient books section" also has 14 Incunabula, 582 Cinquecentine, 974 tomes from 1600 and 3,793 from 1700, 45 manuscripts. Important are the "Calabria Section", the "Pasquale Sandicchi" collection, the "Umberto Zanotti Bianco" archive and library, the "Guido Aloe", "Corrado Alvaro", "Attilio Da Empoli", "Gennaro Giuffré" donations, "Domenico Iaria", "Vincenzo Mezzatesta", "Vincenzo Morello", "Antonio Priolo", Domenico De Giorgio "," Vittorio Visalli "," Diego Vitrioli "and" Domenico Spanò Bolani ". Overall, the bibliographic patrimony has over 116,000 works, while the 531 hemerographic one collected between current and discontinued newspapers and periodicals. .

A corner of culture in the heart of Magna Graecia sin not in step with the times without WiFi few cultural moments all because of few economic funds: the house next door needs to be renovated but very elegant, it lives of cultural moments thanks to the association Anassilaos who for free does his best to make culture

Enchanting place and maximum expression of Calabrian culture. Rare texts can be consulted