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The Vatican Library, founded in 1475 by Pope Sixtus IV, is one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in the world, and is a fundamental research centre for humanistic studies. Today, the Library holds an immense patrimony consisting of about 180,000 manuscript and archival volumes, 1,600,000 printed books, about 9,000 incunabula, 300,000 coins and medals, over 150,000 prints, thousands of drawings and plates, and over 200,000 photographs.
Among these treasures is also the diary of Pietro Querini, whose writings contributed to a better understanding of the trade and cultural routes of his time and provided us with the first information on the peoples of the north in the Middle Ages.
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