A VALUABLE LIBRARY
After,.prolonged negotiations the'fanious Bprghese.. Archives have passed .from the princely family, of that, name to the Vatician Library., ..writes... the •Rome . correspondent of the London "Observer." , •
It is stated that Prince Borgheso has lent them-'indefinitely;- but it is whispered tHat theT'ope has purchased them outright, including that portion which was loaned to the Vatican many years ago, and comprises, among other interesting relics, Petrarchi's breyiary■and archives touching the', Pontificate" of' Paul y;,%who >vas a Borgheso; ■jjt js said'^that the collection would take up, a kilometre, and a'ilyalf of .space if placed on one-tier shelves. They arrived af the Vatican 7 in many wicker baskets, carefully cbvered and neatly numbered. They will' be kept in-the old picture gallery, or Pinac.oteca on .steel shelves after the "latest American pattern. r / .-'■'" ?' '
' The Borghese: archives iriclijd.e' manyletters from. kings Ipiig deatl, secret papers of great; historical, interest, and the historj-' of Latium, which;the Bor-; ghese once practicably, owned,' and where they dispensed justice. ■ A'-fine-collec-tion of old inapsr ttf 'the' Boman Campagna is also a valuable acquisition-
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Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 19
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175A VALUABLE LIBRARY Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 19
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