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June 6, 2017
Guest Contributor Exhibition Review: Love in Venice at the New York Public Library Venice has always been a mysterious and cunning lady, from her ancient origin stories (in competition with Rome), to her annual marriage to the sea (offering profitable international trade).

April 4, 2014
In late March 2014 , Monsignor Cesare Pasini, prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, announced that it will partner with Japanese IT company NTT Data Corporation to digitize 3,000 manuscripts through 2018.

October 27, 2013
Tina Lepri and Ermanno Rivetti report in The Art Newspaper that Naples’s Girolamini church complex is now under the management of the Italian Cultural Minister after thousands of manuscripts and other artifacts were stolen by the now-jailed former director of the library.