Special Collections
Gino Franceschini
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
1.1 Library
Biblioteca San Girolamo
1.2 Collection name
Fondo Gino Franceschini
1.3 Biographical notes
Gino Franceschini (1890-1974) was born in Sansepolcro. His father died when he was very young and he attended high school at the episcopal seminary of his town. In 1913, he obtained his teaching qualification and then his high school diploma. From 1914 to 1918, he participated in World War I; in this period, he enrolled at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria di Milano, graduating in Lettere under the guidance of Gioacchino Volpe. He taught in Urbino, Milan, and Città di Castello as an Italian, history, and philosophy teacher at secondary schools. In 1923, he started his historical researches, focusing on some towns in the Upper Tiber Valley, like Citerna, Sansepolcro, and Sovara. Then, living in Urbino, he started studying the Montefeltro and Malatesta families. In 1951, he gor the chair of Medieval and Modern History at Facoltà di Magistero of the University of Urbino. One of Franceschini’s greatest merits was to bring the history of Montefeltro and Malatesta to a national level, underlining the relations of the two families with Milan, Florence, Rome, and Naples.
1.4 Date and methods of acquisition
The Gino Franceschini collection was donated to the University of Urbino in the early 1980s.
1.5 Collection history
The collection reflects Professor Franceschini’s research and studies in relation to his work as a teacher of medieval and modern history in high schools and at the University of Urbino. The ancient monographs are located in the Ancient Collection of Biblioteca Umanistica.
1.6 Collection increase
No further material is expected to be added to the collection.
1.7 Collection indexing
The collection was given to the University without any kind of documentation.
Now the catalogue is available for consultation:
on the National Library System
on the Polo SBN Marche Nord
on the online catalogue of the University of Urbino's Settore Bibliotecario d'Ateneo
1.8 Collection accessibility
The collection, catalogued and made available to the public, can be accessed online and on open shelves.
2. DESCRIPTION
2.1 Extent
The collection consists of 3.006 modern monographs, 6 periodicals, and 122 ancient monographs (9 from the sixteenth century, 7 from the seventeenth century, 35 from the eighteenth century, and 71 monographs up to 1830).
2.2 Description identifier, organization, and placement
The collection has maintained its autonomy and has been placed in the F.FRANCESC section, divided into the following locations:
F.F-01 history, Latin, Italian, and foreign literature (482 units)
F.F-02 history (1145 units).
F.F-03 Italian and French literature (643 units)
F.F-04 art history (254 units).
2.3 State of conservation
Well preserved.
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DOCUMENTATION
3.1 Bibliography and documentation
E. Agnoletti, Personaggi di San Sepolcro, Sansepolcro,1986, p. 92-93.
Maestri d’ateneo: i docenti dell’Università di Urbino nel Novecento, edited by Anna Falcioni, Urbino, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Quattroventi, 2013 p. 252-261.
4. NOTES
4.1 Special notes and reports
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COMPLIERS' NAMES
Elisa Ceccarini, Luigi Balsamini