Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento

The Library and Archive, owned and operated by the city of Florence, was founded in August 1945 as a restoration and replacement of the Museo del Risorgimento di Firenze founded in 1901. As of 2020, the Library and Archive's holdings include about 30,000 volumes of heritage documents, 550 volumes of periodicals, two 16th century books, ten current periodicals, one hundred discontinued periodicals, bibliographical funds, manuscripts, and a large iconographic collection from the Risorgimento period.

Collections were seriously damaged by the 1966 flood of the Arno.{{Sfn|Witt, Spring|1967|p=20}}{{Sfn|Podcast,|2020|p=}} Nonetheless, the facility and collections were restored and the Library and Archive reopened in 1969.

The Library and Archive is in the same building as:

• The Biblioteca comunale centrale di Firenze (it) [Central Municipal Library of Florence]
• The Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria (it) [the Tuscan Academy of Sciences and Letters, "La Colombaria"]
• The Museo e istituto fiorentino di preistoria (it) [the Florentine Museum and Institute of Prehistory]

In 2007, Italian Senator Paolo Amato (it) introduced a Bill to restore of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence, partly in commemoration the 150{{sup|th}} anniversary of the unification of Italy (2011). The Bill states that the museum had been open to the public only nineteen years, from 1909 though 1938, and was dismantled in 1945, after World War II.{{Sfn|Amato, 3 September,|2007|p=}}

• Fenzi archives{{Sfn|Rotundi,|1956|p=}}

• ATAF – Azienda Trasporti dell'Area Fiorentina ({{italic correction|words translated in reverse}}: Florentine Area Transport Company) (it)
• : Bus 23: Santa Maria Nuova stop (on Via Maurizio Bufalini (it) / Via Sant'Egidio (it), between Via della Pergola and Via del Castellaccio)
• : Bus 14B: Colonna Pergola stop (on Via della Colonna (it), between Via dei Fibbiai (it) and Via della Pergola)

• Palazzo Pucci
• Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
• The church of Sant'Egidio (it) (Community of Sant'Egidio)
• Teatro della Pergola
• Palazzo Galletti (it), via Sant'Egidio 12
• Complesso delle Oblate (it) (Oblate Complex) – former monastery dating back to 1288, now, as of 2007, the municipally owned and operated Oblate library, a state-of-the-art multifunctional center.
• Palazzo Bastogi

• 1966 flood of the Arno

• Biblioteca Marucelliana
• Biblioteca Riccardiana
• Biblioteca dell'Accademia di Belle Arti
• Istituto Geografico Militare [Military Geographic Institute]
• Laurentian Library
• Library at the British Institute of Florence
• Library and Archives at the Accademia dei Georgofili
• Library at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
• Library of the Gabinetto Vieusseux
• Library at the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University
• National Central Library

• Biblioteche di Firenze (it)

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• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Amato, 3 September,|2007|p=}} |last1=Amato |first1=Paolo |author-link1=:it:Paolo Amato (politico) |date=2007 |chapter=Istituzione del Museo del Risorgimento di Firenze |trans-chapter=Establishment of the Museum of the Risorgimento in Florence |chapter-url=https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/DF/200684.pdf |title=Senato della Repubblica – XV Legislatura |trans-title=15th Legislature, Italy |language=it |volume=Atto Senato n. 1780 |location=Rome |publisher=Tipografia del Senato |access-date=5 March 2021}}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Annuario,|1969|p=}} |date=1969 |title=Annuario Delle Biblioteche Italiane |trans-title=Yearbook Bibliography of Italian Libraries |language=it |volume=1 |location=Rome |publisher=Fratelli Palombi |pages=448–449 |oclc=490082618}}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Adorno,|1983|p=}} |last1=Adorno |first1=Francesco |author-link1=:it:Francesco Adorno |date=1983 |title=Accademie e Istituzioni Culturali a Firenze |trans-title=Academies and Cultural Institutions in Florence |language=it |location=Florence |publisher=Leo S. Olschki |page=274 |isbn=978-8-8222-3180-2 |oclc=644045498}}
• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Fioravanti,|1993|p=}} |last1=Fioravanti |first1=Luciano |date=1993 |title=Guida alle Biblioteche della Provincia di Firenze |trans-title=Guide to the Libraries of the Province of Florence |language=it |location=Florence |publisher=All'Insegna del Giglio |page=333 |isbn=978-8-8781-4031-8 |oclc=882067954}}
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Rotundi,|1956|p=}} |date=1956 |title=Notizie degli Archivi Toscani |editor1-last=Rotondi |editor1-first= Clementine |journal=Archivio Storico Italiano |language=it |volume=114 |issue=2/3 |pages=320–682 |issn=2036-4660 |jstor=26248511}} Papers of Emanuele Orazio Fenzi donated around 1955–1956 to the Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento. Documents span 1851 to 1923: travel diaries, translations, copies of agricultural writings, critical bibliography of Libya (1867–1922); letters from family and others to Emanuele Orazio Fenzi; correspondence between Emanuele Orazio Fenzi and Gino Bartolommei Gioli (1912–1923), 6 pieces. Rotondi, the bibliographer, was, at the time, working at the National Union Catalog Center (Petrucciani, Alberto. "Rotondi, Clementina". Dizionario Bio-Bibliografico Dei Bibliotecari Italiani Del XX Secolo. Retrieved 4 March 2021).
• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Witt, Spring|1967|p=20}} |last1=Witt |first1=Mario M. |date=Spring 1967 |title=The Flood of 4 November 1966 |journal=The Book Collector |language=en |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=13–25 |issn=0006-7237 |oclc=5915385 |quote=Some 7000 volumes were inundated by the waters.}}
• {{cite podcast |ref={{SfnRef|Podcast,|2020|p=}} |url=https://soundcloud.com/user-501455849/the-florence-flood-of-4-november-1966-by-mario-m-witt |title=The Florence Flood of 4 November 1966 |publisher=The Book Collector |via=SoundCloud |host=Mario M. Witt |date=6 March 2020 |access-date=3 March 2021}} "Some 7000 volumes were inundated by the waters.," on page 20, was omitted at 22:27 in the podcast. Nonetheless, the narrative chronicles the overall extent of damage to archives and artifacts.

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• {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Rotondi & Camerani Marri||p=}} |title=Le Stampe della Biblioteca e Archivio del Risorgimento di Firenze |trans-title=The prints of the Library and Archive of the Risorgimento in Florence |editor1-last=Rotondi |editor1-first=Clementine |editor2-last=Camerani Marri |editor2-first=Giulia |journal=Rassegna Storica Toscana |trans-journal=Tuscan Historical Review |type=4 monographs |language=it |issn=0033-9881 |oclc=558537849}}
• : "Inventario{{space|4}}I". Vol. 11, no. 2 (July–December 1965). pp. 301–333.
• : "Inventario{{space|3}}II". Vol. 12, no. 1 (January–June 1966). pp. 113–186. Cronaca 147.
• : "Inventario{{space|2}}III". Vol. 12, no. 2 (July–December 1966). pp. 233–291. Cronaca 293.
• : "Inventario IV". Vol. 20, no. 1 (January–June 1974). pp. 109–138. Le caricature 109. OPAC SBN Codice Identificativo {{URL|http://id.sbn.it/bid/RAV2046996|IT\ICCU\RAV\2046996}}