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...from the Berensons’ 1,400 correspondents, 6,000 letters between Bernard and Mary, their diaries, manuscripts, and other personal records.It is the library, though, which was most beloved by Berenson, who reportedly said that in an afterlife, he would have liked to haunt his library. Today, the Biblioteca Berenson has grown from the original 50,000 volumes to about 150,000 volumes, and over 300,000 photographs and other visual materials are housed in the Fototeca Berenson, which will soon be made digitally accessible.‘AN ARCADIA’Since the original class of six post...
...Blameworthy en la Biblioteca...
...annex to I Tatti's Biblioteca Berenson, called the Paul E. Geier Library after a noted Harvard benefactor will double the center's collection of medieval books and works of art. It is expected to provide space for I Tatti's expanding collection for the next 40 years and to facilitate a growing public demand for Renaissance studies, according to a statement released by the center...
...while a prisoner of war in Genoa, Marco Polo dictated The Description of the World, his account of "the diversities of kingdoms, provinces, and regions of all parts of the East." A copy annotated by Christopher Columbus is in the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville...
Among many others giving books or money to the library were J. P. Morgan '89, the Trustees of Elcanor Elkins Rice, Owen D. Young, the Biblioteca Nacional of Buenos Aires, and the Boston School Committee...