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Niccolo Macchiavelli Collection: a major collection of first and early editions of Machiavelli, dating from 1523, with an emphasis upon his political and historical works. Acquired by purchase in 1990. Interfiled with LC Starred Books. To see a selection of titles from this collection click here.
Chambers Dante Collection: approximately 1,700 volumes was formed by the English Scholar William F. Chambers during a long residence in Florence. The collection was donated to Brown by Henry D. Sharpe (Brown 1894), through the intercession of Prof. Courtney Langdon. The collection's strengths are in scholarly editions of the 15th through the 19th centuries of Dante's works, in particular the Divine Comedy, commentaries (chiefly in Italian), translations, and other reference, biographical and historical works. Prof. Langdon's literary and critical manuscripts have been added to the collection. To see a selection of titles from this collection click here.
Lownes History of Science Collection: The History of Science Collections encompass books and manuscripts dating from the late 15th to the mid 20th century. Particular strengths are in the history of mathematics and astronomy. There are editions of classical authors on mathematics and astronomy, sixteenth and seventeenth century astronomical tables, and fifteenth and sixteenth century editions of Latin translations of Arabic astronomical and astrological texts. They provide many of the works fundamental to the study of the exact sciences during the Renaissance. There are more than 4,000 significant works documenting the sciences in modern times, many of which were printed before 1800, beginning with the works of Galileo, Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Newton, and his followers. There are also early editions of works by Ampere, Francis Bacon, Boyle, Mme Curie, Einstein, Franklin, Helmholtz, von Humboldt, William James, Leibniz, Lyell, Maury, Napier, Pasteur, Priestly, and Vesalius. To see a selection of Italian titles from this collection click here.
The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection is the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and is one of the world's largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms. Formed over a period of forty years by the late Mrs. John Nicholas Brown (1906-1985), it comprises approximately 12,000 printed books, 18,000 albums, sketchbooks, scrapbooks and portfolios, (containing thousands of prints and drawings), and over 13,000 individual prints, drawings and water-colors as well as a collection of 5,000 miniature lead soldiers.
Materials on Italy focus primarily on the Napoleonic period and the Risorgimento. To see a selection of Italian history titles from this collection click here.

Current serial subscriptions are very selective for this subject.
Archivio storico italiano (1842-)
Archivio storico Lombardo (1887-)
Archivio veneto, a cura della R. Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie (1871-)
Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée (1990-)
Rivista storica italiana (1896-)
Roma moderna e contemporanea (2004-)
Schifanoia : notizie dell'Istituto di studi rinascimentali di Ferrara (1986-)
Società [sic] e storia (1978-)
Studi storici (1959-)
Other serial titles, now ceased or cancelled, that relevant to this subject include:
Quaderni storici delle Marche (1968-1969)
Studi storici; periodico trimestrale (1892-1914)
Yearbook of Italian studies (1971-1996)
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