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Unmissable event for the beauty and importance of the site. For the FAI Spring Days, the Library of Girolamini of Naples will be open to the public on 19 and 20 March 2016. Admission is reserved for FAI members, but you can register on-site at the National Trust for Italy and You can then easily access.
The library, opened to the public in 1586 and since then was destined to public use. His regular guests were personalities such as Benedetto Croce and Giambattista Vico. The latter, the great Neapolitan philosopher hometown of San Biagio dei Booksellers, donated all the first editions of his works at the convent and is dedicated to him one of the rooms of the structure. And more or less recent times even the great Gerardo Marotta it was a great supporter. It contains almost 160,000 volumes, including works of philosophy, Christian theology, Greek and Latin literature, the history of the Church, as well as scores of sacred music and books on the history of Europe. But it is not only books the Library.
As part of the entire monumental complex Girolami, also composed by the Church and the Cloister, through which it is accessed, it is an architectural spectacle. And ‘adorned with paintings and frescoes in the vaults and in the walls that frame the shelves of fine wood that guard always been writing jewels, and make sure the most beautiful library of Naples and the second in Italy for history. Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 then appointment for this special opening, from 10 to 16.
