Catalogo della Sala lettura ( aggiornamento luglio 2014 ) (155.53 KB).The reading room, situated at the first floor of the villa, is very wide and bright, thanks to the presence of a glass wall that permits at the natural light to enter widely in the room. It has desks for the study opportunely equipped for the internet connection through cave or with the wi-fi system.
All the materials of the room, that you can fotocopy paying, are left out the loan, but are freely consultable in seat. There are especially encyclopaedic works both general (like the Treccani encyclopaedia, or the biography Dictionary of the italians) and specific for argument, but also monographs. In the room are consultable the dictionaries and the vocabularies of the italian language, the dictionaries of latin and greek, and also, for people who want particular news about our language, the dictionary of the way of speech, that one's of the quotations, that etymological of the dialects one's. The story of the italian literature is contained in three different encyclopaedias: Einaudi, Marzorati and Garzanti, over that others general dictionaries of works and authors, especially that one's very useful for the students, published by Bompiani. The story of the picture and architecture are documented by a series of precious illustrated volumes, some of that of recent exit, like the story of the italian and european picture published by Electa, that examines region for region (in the case of our Country) and nation for nation the works of the greatest artists. But also the sciences and the technology find their space at the internal of the room: from the Encyclopaedia of the science and the technique of Mondadori, to the biography Dictionary of the scientists and the technicians, and also the Dictionary of engineering Utet, to the real volume of mechanics, electrotechnics, textile technology, exit for the scientific editions of Zanichelli.
The lovers of the cinema, theatre and lyric music have lots of material at disposition; from the Dictionary of the films of Paolo Mereghetti, to the Story of the theatre Einaudi, to the Dictionary of the work of Baldini and Castoldi that contains deepened schedes of all the lyric works.
For people who seek medical informations about pathology and something like that will be useful the ten illustrated volumes of Medicine and health, while for peole who need more specific and deepened texts will be able to consult the atlas of anatomy and clinic fisiopathology of Frank H. Netter, published by the CibaGeigy editions. In the room there are also historical, geographical and archeological atlas over the volume of the history of Rome, Italy and Europe published by Einaudi.
