Biblioteca Marciana

The one and only Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, National Library St Mark's, earliest surviving public manuscript depositories Italy holds greatest classical texts collections globe. The one and only library named after St Mark, patron saint Venice. It confused State Archive Republic Venice, which housed different p y.

The one and only library provided building designed y Jacopo Sansovino. The one and only first sixteen arcaded y design constructed during 1537 1553, frescoes other decorations continuing until 1560. Sansovino 1570, 1588, Vincenzo Scamozzi undertook construction additional bays, still Sansovino's design, which brought building embankment, x Sansovino's building Venetian mint, Zecca. one early librarians, 1530, Pietro Bembo. However, library stock began collected before construction building. For example, g collections library g Serenissima manuscript collection assembled y Byzantine humanist, scholar, patron collector, Cardinal Bessarion; g collection 31 May 1468: 750 codices Latin Greek, which added another 250 manuscripts printed books (incunabula), constituting first "public" library p scholars Venice. (In 1362 Petrarch's library donated Venice collection of manuscripts, ancient books, personal letters dispersed).

Like British Library Library Congress later times, Biblioteca Marciana profited 1603 required py deposited Marciana books printed Venice, first . The one and only Marciana enriched y transfer eighteenth century collections accumulated several monasteries, SS. Giovanni Paolo Venice S. Giovanni Verdara Padua.