Ambrosian Library

The Ambrosian Library is a library established by the Cardinal and Archbishop Federico Borromeo. Named after the father of the Church of St. Ambrose of Milan, the bishop and patron of Milan. The oldest public library in Italy. A library was opened at the library; a school of classical languages ​​was also located here.nThe library contains 12 manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, 12 thousand drawings by European artists of the XIV-XIX centuries, an illuminated edition of the Iliad, Virgil with illustrations by Simone Martini and Petrarch’s marginals, the Bangor Anti-Phonary (VII century, one of the oldest monuments of medieval hymnography) other cultural values.