The Biblioteca Angelica owes its name to the Augustinian Bishop Angelo Rocca (1546–1620), an erudite writer and a keen collector of rare editions. The library’s heritage consists today of nearly 200,000 volumes. Its specialized areas are Italian literature and literary criticism, Italian theater from fifteenth to eighteenth century, religious historical studies with a particular reference to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and Augustinian studies. The Manuscript Fund consists of nearly 24,000 unbound documents and 2,700 Latin, Greek, and Oriental volumes. The biblioteca further owns 460 unbound geographical maps, of which 85 are manuscript nautical charts produced in the Netherlands, numerous atlases and around 10,000 maps bound in volumes. For further information (e.g., opening hours, access, more), please consult the Biblioteca Angelica’s homepage.
Piazza di S. Agostino, 8, 00186 Rome
tel. 06 6840801 or b-ange[at]cultura.gov.it