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Bosco, Salvina, "...ove dormono depositati. Per una storia della Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria di Catania", Bibliothecae.It, 1/(1-2) (2012), 157-174.

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The university library in Catania was founded in 1693, during the re-building of the city after the earthquake. In 1754 Vico Coco was appointed first librarian, afterwards replaced by Vito Maria Amico. In 1757 the collection of Giovan Battista Caruso was acquired, becoming the most important fund of the library. In 1763 Coco was re-integrated in his position, thanks to the intervention of the bishop of Catania, Salvatore Ventimiglia, a strong supporter of the library. In 1784 the collection “Ventimiliana” became part of the university library, under the supervision Giovanni Agostino De Cosmi, although separated from the rest of the collection. The episcopal collection became with the time a point of attraction for the Sicilian erudition, until, in 1818, Francesco Strano published the Catalogo Ragionato of the Ventimiliana. A different fortune had the university collection: for a long time neglected, it was finally systematised by Vito Rapisarda and Giovanni Sardo. Since the Unity of Italy, the university library has had several persons in charge, without finding a definitive structure. In 1893, the Ventimiliana and the University library merged together, sharing a troubled destiny.
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).