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| | Biblioteca e Casa Carducci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Casa Carducci contains the poets home, his library and his personal archive, and nowadays it is a beautiful example of a maison décrivain functioning as museum and library. |
 | | Margherita of Savoia, Queen of Italy and one of Carduccis admirers, bought the library and subsequently the entire house, and transferred it all to the City Council after the poets death, in order to prevent any danger of the poets collections and mementos getting dispersed. |
 | | There are some 45,000 items including books annotated by Carducci, pamphlets, offprints and periodicals, a few incunabula, 900 16th-century books, a number of rare literary manuscripts - ranging from Edmund Spenser to Victor Hugo, from Foscolo to Zola - as well as the authors correspondence and autographs of his own works. |
| www.cerl.org /Itinerary/Emilia-Romagna/biblioteca_e_casa_carducci.htm (485 words) |
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