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4 any way meets the modern requirements of giving ample shelf accommodation was Leopoldo della Santa, who in 1816 published at Florence a quarto pamphlet, with the title Della costruzione e del rego-

lamento di una pubblica universale Biblioteca, con la pianta dimostrativa. It is interesting to recall this early attempt to construct a building entirely from an utilitarian point of view (Fig. 3). He takes for his site a rectangular plot, with light on all four