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Laurentian Library



The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana) in Florence, Italy is famous as a repository of nearly 11,000 manuscripts and early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the Medici pope, Clement VII, the Library is renowned for the architecture planned and built by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1525).



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