{"id":5035,"date":"2018-09-10T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:57:29","slug":"library-federico-da-montefeltro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/library-federico-da-montefeltro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library of Federico da Montefeltro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Profile portrait of Federico da Montefeltro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As many of you may know, the town of Urbino (a few km away from San Marino) was home to Federico da Montefeltro<\/strong> (7 June 1422 – 10 September 1482), a condottiero<\/em>, a duke, and a patron of Renaissance.<\/p>\n

To the latter role, we owe the creation of one of the most interesting and fascinating manuscript collections, which has survived almost entirely until modern times.<\/p>\n

So we thought you might enjoy knowing a little more about him and his outstanding library, which reflects his artistic tastes as much as his personal and political history.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Federico da Montefeltro was a condottiero, a duke, and a patron of Renaissance<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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View of the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View of the Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Currently, the collection is no longer located in Urbino, as it was moved to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana<\/strong> where each volume is dearly taken care of, however, the actual library and its essence remain in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino<\/strong>, which oozes with the Duke’s personality at every turn, just think of his studiolo<\/em>, entering the room leaves most of the people breathless.<\/p>\n

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Scholars have long studied the figure of Federico and his library and it has been estimated that, before 1464, his library contained “only” about 100 volumes (still more than the average number of books that many of us read in a lifetime), however, the Duke of Urbino was an exceptional bibliophile<\/strong> and he was not going to stop at that. So, the situation quickly changed in the following years and, by the time of his death, his library contained more than 900 volumes, roughly divided like so:<\/p>\n