Libraries in Rome: Religious Studies

The library contains around 25 000 academic books and journals and is a principal hub
in the research activities, studies, and knowledge exchange that takes place at the institute.
Together with the photographic archive collection, it makes a unique resource to explore
the art history of late antiquity, classical archaeology, and Byzantine art in Italy and in the Mediterranean basin.

Open since 1701, its collections cover:​

• Religious and Theological Studies (mostly confessional oriented)
• Roman Law and Economics
• History of the City of Rome.

First European library open to the public (1604), its collection includes works on:​

• Reformation and Counter-Reformation (with particular reference to Italy)
• St. Augustine's Thought and the Activities of the Augustinian Order.

The collections include works on:

• Church History (Reformation and Counter-Reformation in particular)
• Medieval Studies and Paleography
• Culture and History of Rome and Lazio (Fondo Società Romana di Storia Patria).