On Sunday, August 24th, from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM, there will be special guided tours of the Gregoriana Library of the Seminary, curated by Dr. Jacopo De Pasquale in collaboration with the Campedel Association and the Seminary.
Three time slots, at 3:30 PM, 4:20 PM, and 5:15 PM, will take visitors on a discovery of this interesting place.
Separated from the more famous Lolliniana Chapter Library, the Gregoriana Library was established by Pope Gregory XVI, the first pope from Belluno, as a treasure of culture and a place of education for the local clergy upon the reopening of the Seminary in the old Franciscan convent of San Pietro in the 1830s. Today, there are about 83,000 volumes, including the donation from Tommaso Catullo, the etchings of Piranesi, the volume donated by the Jewish community of Rome with the drawings of Paolo Paoletti, several incunabula, the "Atlas Maior sive Cosmographia universalis" in eleven volumes (18th century), and finally the important Borso collection, with its nine Aldine editions.
The guided tours are free and no reservation is necessary, just show up at the church of San Pietro (Via San Pietro, Belluno).
The donations collected will be destined for fundraising for the 19th-century Stations of the Cross by Antonio Federici, preserved inside the church of San Pietro.
