Biblia Sacra manuscritta in cartapecora

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Libro di Conti del Magistrato dell’Abbondanza

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Magistrato dei Censori, Leges constitutiones atque decreta

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Codex Molfino

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Liber Regularum spectabilis

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Theatre Museum and Library

The Civic Museum Library of the actor is one of the few Italian museums dedicated to theatre and entertainment.
Born in 1966 as a sector of the Teatro Stabile di Genova to store theatrical material, it is today a foundation for the historical and critical study of theatre, stage art and the conditions of the Italian actor.

The rich library, specializing in theatre, cinema and entertainment, has more than 44,000 volumes and 1,200 Italian and foreign magazines. The archive contains approximately 72,000 autographs, 69,000 photographs, 1,300 scripts; 4,000 sketches, caricatures, original drawings, posters, playbills, 62,000 press cuttings, more than 10,000 theatre programs. The book and archival collections are more than 70.

Visiting the Museum you can admire the studies of Gilberto Govi, Tommaso Salvini, Alessandro Fersen, Sabatino Lopez, together with other interesting memorabilia. An important collection of theatrical costumes, which belonged to Adelaide Ristori, and the Teatrino Rissone, a nineteenth-century puppet theatre donated by the Rissone-De Sica family, are being rearranged.
 

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Columbus' House, Porta Soprana City Gate and St. Andrew Cloister

Close to one of the central areas of the modern city centre, near Piazza Dante, there is a medieval island of particular charm. Going up the short brick ascent of the historic straight road of Ponticello involves crossing a space full of monuments, a sort of short walk through the history of Genoa. Of course, the urban developments that followed one another in the area during the first decades of the last century have radically altered its appearance, but what is left is a kind of highly evocative "condensed" space in which we find the Middle Ages and the discovery of the Americas, one can almost touch one of the most fruitful and fascinating periods of the city's history and art.

Going up, on the right, there is the house in which Christopher Columbus lived as a child, from the time that he was four to the age of nine: it is a small but dense memorial dedicated to history's most important explorer. It is possible to visit the interior of the house.

Immediately after, there is the medieval cloister of the monastic church of Sant’Andrea, which was located where the Bank of Italy building now stands and was rebuilt here after the demolition of the medieval church and monastery of which it is the only remaining testimony.

At the top of the climb stands the rather severe Porta Soprana, access gate to the medieval city from the east built between 1155 and 1158, to defend the city from an attack (which did not happen) by the troops of Federico Barbarossa. For this reason the walls of which it constituted the main passage are called "del Barbarossa". It has a number of commemorative plaques celebrating the glories of Genoa.

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Viadelcampo29rosso

In the heart of Genoa’s historic centre, in the steet made famous by Fabrizio De André in the song of the same name, where the historic shop “Musica Gianni Tassio" was located, is Viadelcampo29rosso, a store-museum dedicated to the “Genoese school” of Italian singer songwriting : Fabrizio De André, Luigi Tenco, Gino Paoli, Bruno Lauzi, Umberto Bindi, Ivano Fossati.

The little museum includes original LPs, photos, exhibitions and memorabilia, among which the legendary Esteve ’97, Fabrizio De André’s guitar.

Dedicated to songwriting Viadelcampo29rosso has the mission of preserving the cultural and musical heritage of the “Genoese school” and nurturing the close relationship between the city and its music: it hosts events, themed itineraries around the old city, music showcases, workshops for schools and is also available as a film set, in fact through this role it has become well-known and much appreciated both in Italy and abroad.

 

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Musei di Genova State Archive of Genoa

State Archive of Genoa

Genoa’s state archives, located in the prestigious setting of the monumental complex of Sant’Ignazio, just a few steps from the city centre in the Carignano district, houses a collection of thousands of historic documents. These are the papers produced by the magistracies involved in the government of the city over the course of its history starting from the 11th century, it includes those of: the Municipality, the Aristocratic Republic, the Napoleonic Empire, the kingdom of Sardinia, the kingdom of Italy, the Italian Social Republic and the Italian Republic. 

The collection is further enriched by the Archive of the “Casa delle Compere”, the “Banchi di San Giorgio” and the archives of some private families and deeds drawn up by Genoese notaries from 1154 onwards. 

Physically they constitute a formidible collection (the book shelves totalling 40km in length) as well as a documentary heritage of extraordinary importance.

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Thanks to the archival collections preserved in the institute, it is possible to retrace over a millennium of the history of Genoa and Liguria, with documents from 952 to the present day.
The archive contains evidence of the crucial role assumed by the ancient Marine Republic of Genoa in medieval times. It passes through the oldest existing notarial register, that of the Young Scribe's Cartulary, which dates back to the decade 1154 - 1164; to “Libri Iurium”, a thirteenth-century manuscript that reports the text of the inscription in gold letters that the Genoese had placed in 1105 on the altar lintel of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, listing the privileges received in the Holy Land after the First Crusade; to the letter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius III Comnenus to the Genoese, dated 1199, which was sent to restart the diplomatic relations between the “Superba” and the Byzantine Empire after a stormy period.
Among the most curious documents we find the letter from the Protectors of San Giorgio to Christopher Columbus to congratulate the acclaimed fellow citizen for the discovery of America, and the Nicolò Paganini’s will, with which in 1837 the violinist, who was Genoese by birth, bequeathed the famous “Cannone”, his favorite violin, to the City of Genoa.

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Luigi Maria d'Albertis bust and panoplia

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