Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II
library, Rome, Italy
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The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II is a national library in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1875, it is one of several national libraries in Italy, which has a number of these institutions due to the country's unification in the 19th century, bringing together many city-states with major libraries. National libraries primarily aim to collect and preserve a nation's literature, often receiving a copy of every book and periodical published in the country through legal deposit.1
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