The IRIS libraries

• Berenson Library - Villa I Tatti
• Libraries of the Gallerie degli Uffizi
  • Library of the Uffizi
  • Library of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe
  • Library of the Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti)
  • Library of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Palazzo Pitti)
  • Library of the Galleria del Costume (Palazzo Pitti)
• Library of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello
• Library of the Dutch University Institute for Art History
• Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento
• The «U. Procacci» Library - Opificio delle Pietre Dure
• The Leonardiana Library - Vinci

Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento

Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Florence (Italy)
tel. + 39 055 287728 - fax +39 055 280563
e-mail: info@insr.it
http://www.insr.it
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM ; 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM. Closed for Christmas holidays. Reduced hours are observed for the months of July and August.
Access: open to students, professors, and researchers; first-time readers must present a letter of introduction
Readers' services: reference, on-site consultation (no loans), limited photocopying, microfilm reader/printer

The Library was established in 1937, the founding year of the Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento, first known as the Centro nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento, and is headquartered today as then in the prestigious Palazzo Strozzi. The Library's primary focus is on classical and Renaissance civilization, supporting all relevant fields of study: literature, philosophy, history, and art history. Important sections of the Library are: earliest holdings, divided into sections on the arts, literature, history, topography and voyages; minor arts, focusing most particularly on ceramics; theater; reference works, a section made up of materials supporting bibliographical research; monographs offering textual editions of and studies on writers, philosophers and artists; periodicals.

Patrimony
The Library possesses some 60,000 titles, among which are: 163 rare titles published before 1800, and including several 15th century imprints; more that 500 journal titles, of which 329 are currently received; 1332 microfilms; 950 drawings and prints.
The library also possesses special collections named for Frezza, Machiavelli-Serristori, Giovanni e Giuseppe Poggi, Rari, and Tarchiani.
In addition to library holdings the Instituto also maintains a photographic archive of ca. 78,000 photographs of works of art, 1300-1700, which is undergoing online cataloging.

• Other resources

  • Art Discovery Group Catalogue
  • Internet Culturale
  • SBART - Sistema Bibliotecario Atenei Regione Toscana
  • BNCF - Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
  • OPAC SBN - Catalog of National Library Service
  • EDIT 16 - The Census of Italian 16th Century Editions
  • MAI - MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano
  • Univ. degli Studi di Firenze - Sistema Bibliotecario d'Ateneo
  • Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
  • European University Institute - Library
  • Museo Galileo - Florence
  • The Library of the Scuola Normale Superiore
  • URBS - Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche
  • URBiS Library Network

• • The Library of Congress online Catalog
  • The British Library
  • BnF - Bibliothéque nationale de France
  • HOLLIS - Harvard On Line Library Information System
  • Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Utrecht University Library
  • KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
  • The Warburg Institute Library
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  • ITALE - Association of Italian Ex-Libris Users
  • IGeLU - The International Group of Ex Libris Users
  • AIB - Italian Library Association
  • SRS - Society for Renaissance Studies
  • RSA - The Renaissance Society of America