Laurentian Library

The Laurentian Library is a historic library in , Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the Medici pope Clement VII, the library was built to emphasize that the Medici were no longer just merchants but members of intelligent and ecclesiastical society.
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  • Type: Library
  • Description: library in Florence, Italy
  • Also known as: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”, “Biblioteca medicea laurenziana”, “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”, “Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana”, “BML”, “Laurentian Library of Basilica of San Lorenzo”, “Laurentian Library San Lorenzo”, “Laurenziana”, and “Medicean-Laurentian Library”
  • Address: Piazza di San Lorenzo 9

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Basilica of San Lorenzo and Medici Chapel.

Church
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The Basilica di San Lorenzo is one of the largest churches of , Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district of the city, and it is the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III.

Museum
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The Medici Chapels are two chapels built between the 16th and 17th centuries as an extension to the , in the Italian city of .

Church
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Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence in . Commenced in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed by 1436 with a dome… is situated 270 metres southeast of Laurentian Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Statuto and Isolotto.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 3 km west of Laurentian Library.

Neighborhood
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is a city in the southeastern part of , Italy. The neighborhood is bordered by the Affrico and Mensola streams, by the slopes of the hills and by the Via Aretina. is situated 3½ km east of Laurentian Library.

Laurentian Library

Latitude
43.77442° or 43° 46′ 28″ north
Longitude
11.25377° or 11° 15′ 14″ east
Open location code
8FMHQ7F3+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q856419
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Laurentian Library” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Biblioteka Laurenciane”
  • Arabic: “المكتبة اللورنتية”
  • Armenian: “Լաուրենցիանա գրադարան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laurensiana kitabxanası”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Лаўрэнціяна”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Лаўрэнцыяна”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Ляўрэнцыяна”
  • Belarusian: “Лаўрэнціяна”
  • Bulgarian: “Библиотека Лауренциана”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Medicea - Laurenziana”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Central Bikol: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Chinese: “洛伦佐美第奇图书馆”
  • Chinese: “老楞佐图书馆”
  • Czech: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Czech: “Bibliotheca Laurentiana”
  • Czech: “Medicejská knihovna sv. Vavřince”
  • Czech: “Medicejská knihovna ve Florencii”
  • Dutch: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Esperanto: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Esperanto: “Laŭrenca Biblioteko”
  • Finnish: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Finnish: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • French: “Bibliotheca Laurentiana”
  • French: “Bibliotheque laurentienne”
  • French: “bibliothèque Laurentienne”
  • French: “Bibliothèque laurentienne”
  • French: “Bibliothèque Laurentienne”
  • French: “Bibliothèque Médicéo-Laurentine”
  • Galician: “Biblioteca Laurenciana”
  • German: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • German: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • German: “Bibliotheca Laurenziana”
  • German: “Laurentian Library”
  • German: “Laurenziana”
  • Greek: “Λαυρεντιανή Βιβλιοθήκη”
  • Hebrew: “הספרייה הלורנציאנית”
  • Hebrew: “ספריית מדיצ’י”
  • Hungarian: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Indonesian: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Indonesian: “Libreria Laurenziana”
  • Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Laurenziana”
  • Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Medici”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana-Delciana”
  • Italian: “BML”
  • Italian: “Laurenziana”
  • Italian: “Libreria Laurenziana”
  • Japanese: “ラウレンツィアーナ図書館”
  • Japanese: “ロレンツォ・メディチ図書館”
  • Korean: “메디체아 라우렌치아나 도서관”
  • Lombard: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Norwegian: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Persian: “دهلیز کتابخانه لورنس”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه لورنزی”
  • Polish: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Polish: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Polish: “Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Laurenziana”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca Laurenciana”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Russian: “Библиотека Лауренциана”
  • Russian: “Библиотека Медичи Лауренциана”
  • Russian: “Лаврентийская библиотека”
  • Russian: “Лауренциана”
  • Serbian: “Biblioteka Mediči Laurencijana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Biblioteka Laurenziana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laurentijanska biblioteka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laurentijska biblioteka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laurentijska knjižnica”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laurentinska biblioteka”
  • Slovak: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Slovak: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Slovak: “Knižnica Mediceo Laurenziana”
  • Slovak: “Laurentiánska bibliotéka”
  • Slovak: “Laurentiánska knižnica”
  • Slovak: “Laurentínska knižnica”
  • Slovak: “Laurenziana”
  • Slovak: “Lorenzovská mediciovská knižnica”
  • Slovak: “Medicejská knižnica”
  • Slovak: “Medicejsko-Laurentianska bibliotéka”
  • Slovak: “medicejsko-laurentínska knižnica”
  • Slovak: “Medicejsko-Laurenzianska biblioték”
  • Slovenian: “Knjižnica Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Slovenian: “Medičejska knjižnica”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca laurenciana”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Laurenciana”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Laurentina”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenciana”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana”
  • Swedish: “Biblioteca Laurenziana Medicea”
  • Swedish: “Biblioteca Laurenziana”
  • Swedish: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Tagalog: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Tatar: “Лауренциана китапханәсе”
  • Turkish: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Turkish: “Lorenzo Kütüphanesi”
  • Turkish: “Medicea Laurenziana Kütüphanesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бібліотека Лауренціана”
  • Uzbek: “Laurentian kutubxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện Laurentian”
  • Welsh: “Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”
  • Western Armenian: “Մետիչիներուն Լորենթեան գրադարանը”

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