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TheBiblioteca Comunale Ariostea is located in thePalazzo Paradiso in centralFerrara, region ofEmilia-Romagna, Italy. It was named Ariostea, because the collection contains manuscripts related to the author, and within the palace also lies the tomb ofLudovico Ariosto.
The Palazzo Paradiso was built in 1391 as a palace of theHouse of Este. In 1567 the building was leased by CardinalIppolito II d'Este for the university faculties; here graduatedParacelsus. In the 17th century as a result of an intervention byGiovan Battista Aleotti was built the clock tower and marble door and the palace received its present appearance.
The library, founded in 1750–1753,[1] and refurbished in 1801 according to a plaque in the reading room,[2] is dedicated to manuscripts and publications related to local writers such as Ariosto,Tasso,Vincenzo Monti,Govoni,Caretti, andNello Quilici. The collection has nearly 400,000 objects. The library occupies a building adjacent to the Jewish Ghetto of Ferrara. The restored reading room is now dedicated to the bibliophileGiovanni Maria Riminaldi.[3][4] TheUniversity of Ferrara was moved in 1963 to this building, while the library is still located there.
In the library holds mediaeval manuscripts, among them the biblical manuscripts:581,582.
The reading room of the library, was founded in 1750. The bookshelves and interior architecture were by Gaetano Barbieri, and the ceiling was decorated byGiuseppe Facchinetti, Giacomo Filippi andAlessandro Turchi.[5]
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