The Archiginnasio of Bologna? One of Italy’s greatest libraries and a bibliophile’s dream
The Archiginnasio is the largest library in the region of Emilia-Romagna, boasting some 850,000 volumes, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century tomes, 8,500 manuscripts, 7,500 magazines and a vast archive of letters, prints and drawings, much of it handwritten or from the early days of print.
Anatomical theater? Yes. Built in the mid-16th century, it’s a sublime fusion of Renaissance aesthetics and medical functionalism, with a series of wooden pews rising amphitheatrically around a central white slab, from where professors would dissect cadavers in front of inquisitive students. The wall is decorated with wooden sculptures of famous physicians, both ancient and modern while two beautifully grotesque statues of skinned humans hold up the canopy above the professor’s chair.
In 1803, the University was moved to a new building and in 1838 the Archiginnasio assumed its principal function as the city’s library, absorbing thousands of tomes that became available to them due to Napoleon’s closure of the city’s religious orders.
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