The poet Petrarch arranged to leave his personal library to the city of Venice; but it never arrived. The Venetian tradition that this was the founding of the Biblotheca Marciana is an anachronism; it was founded a century later.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • The poet Petrarch arranged to leave his personal library to the city of Venice; but it never arrived. The Venetian tradition that this was the founding of the Biblotheca Marciana is an anachronism; it was founded a century later.
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:reference
rdfs:comment
  • The poet Petrarch arranged to leave his personal library to the city of Venice; but it never arrived. The Venetian tradition that this was the founding of the Biblotheca Marciana is an anachronism; it was founded a century later.
rdfs:label
  • Petrarch's library
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:page