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Location: Gravina In Puglia, Bari, Apulia, Italy

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Cornelia Fuchs

February 19, 2025

It is one of the oldest public libraries in Puglia, and could be defined as a true "secular temple" of knowledge and culture, strongly desired and enriched by enlightened representatives of the episcopate and local clergy.

The most conspicuous donation in terms of book and financial heritage is due to the cardinal from whom it takes its name, Francesco Antonio Finy (1669-1743), a close collaborator of Pope

Benedict XIII, who arranged for the assignment to the Chapter of the Cathedral of his rich

personal library, including volumes of very high artistic and historical value, which increased

the endowment of the old collection, and 2000 ducats for the construction of a "vase" to place the library, previously located inside the sacristy of the cathedral, with its furnishings.

It was officially founded in 1686 by Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Orsini, then Archbishop of Benevento, who ascended to the papal throne in 1724 with the name of Benedict XIII, who acted as executor of the last will of the bishop of Gravina

Domenico Cennini dei Salamandra, ruler of the diocese from 1645 to 1684, who had left a first substantial nucleus of his books.

The collection was further enriched with donations

from Archdeacon Donato Angelo Lettieri (1700) and Pope Benedict XIII (1729). In 1740 the construction was entrusted to the architect Donato Giannuzzi of Altamura and completed in 1743.

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Location: Gravina In Puglia, Bari, Apulia, Italy

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