The Neapolitan Society of National History is one of the oldest Italian Historical Societies, created to strengthen the process of unification of the country of Italy through research into the variety and richness of local traditions. Founded in 1875, it soon published the Historical Archives for the Neapolitan Provinces (Archivio Storico per le Province Napoletane) where essays, previously unpublished documents and bibliographical reviews relative to the history of Southern Italy.
The Library contains highly important collections, for the most part coming from donations by scholars and intellectuals from the 19th Century (Volpicella, Cuomo, Capasso). These collections are made up of antique and modern books, periodicals, anthologies, documents, manuscripts, parchments, prints and designs, forming a patrimony of more than 300,000 items.
The library is part of the SBN project of participatory cataloguing for cataloguing monographs and periodicals. It is also a member of the MANUS project for the cataloguing of documentary manuscript collections, following the cataloguing rules of the ICCU. A local database is used for the treatment of iconographic materials, according to the standard ICCD rules.





The catalogues of the Neapolitan Society of National History can be consulted at this time in the OPAC section of the SBN National Index.
Loans and copies are possible upon request to the Managing Council of the Society or the direct owners for documents that are not publicly owned.

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