Paul Oskar Kristeller

The library, donated by Kristeller, reached the Scuola Normale during the 1990s. It contains more than 7,300 pamphlets and extracts and about 2,500 volumes, which are only a part of the original library since a large portion was donated to the library of Columbia University. The volumes are shelved based on their subject in the various sectors of the Library of the Scuola Normale. The extracts are, instead, kept together. Most of the collection concerns the thought, culture and literature of the Humanistic-Renaissance period, as well as the history of art, Italian and European, with an important collection on the arts of the extreme orient.

To accede to the catalogue of Paul Oskar Kristeller’s library:

1) Select SEARCH from the website of the Scuola Normale Superiore Library; 
2) Select Collezioni SNS;
3) Select fondo di provenienza in the tutti i campi section;
3) Write kristeller in the search string;
4) Select Cerca.

The resulting list can be ordered by author, title or year.