Fondazione Marco Besso

Fondazione Marco Besso is an Italian cultural foundation based in Rome. It is named after Marco Besso and operates the Biblioteca Marco Besso, a library that preserves a centuries-spanning collection of rare and antiquarian books. The foundation's official website presents it as a cultural institution ('cultura') and provides access to its library, events, and digitized holdings. The library's collections include incunabula and volumes from the 1500s through the 1900s, and selected editions of Dante's Divina Commedia have been made available online, for example in connection with Dantedì 2025. The foundation maintains a public reading room and a reservation system for library access, though walk-in access without booking is also permitted. As a private non-profit entity, it does not trade on a stock exchange and is not a commercial company in the conventional sense; its 'brand' is its institutional identity as a custodian of Italian bibliographic heritage.

Fondazione Marco Besso is an Italian cultural foundation based in Rome, named after Marco Besso. It operates the Biblioteca Marco Besso, a library whose collections span several centuries. According to the foundation's website, the library holds incunabula and printed works from the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s, and has undertaken digitization projects to make parts of its holdings available online. In 2025, for Dantedì (the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri), the foundation highlighted digitized editions of the Divina Commedia preserved in the Biblioteca Marco Besso. The foundation also hosts events and maintains a reading room; its website notes that access to the library does not require a reservation, although a booking system remains available for those who wish to use it. As a private non-profit institution, it does not have publicly traded shares and its activities are focused on cultural preservation, research, and public access to its collections.

• Digitized editions of the Divina Commedia from the Biblioteca Marco Besso are made available online for Dantedì 2025.

A private cultural foundation and historic library in Rome dedicated to preserving and providing access to rare books and Italian literary heritage.

• Biblioteca Marco Besso

  A historic library in Rome holding incunabula and rare books from the 1500s to the 1900s, with digitized collections available online.

1. 1FONDAZIONE MARCO BESSO - Roma - culturafondazionemarcobesso.net
2. 2Fondazione Marco Besso - Wikidatawikidata.org