Historical University Library "A. GRAF"

The library of the Rector's Palace of the University of Turin, built by order of King Vittorio Amedeo II in 1720, was the only one among the Italian academic libraries following unification to be recognized as a National University Library, and since then it has qualified itself as a collection center for very precious manuscript and printed collections, with a highly multidisciplinary and varied book heritage. Following a serious fire at the beginning of the last century and the bombings of the Second World War, parts of the collections were destroyed and the surviving heritage was transferred to the current headquarters of the National Library, in Piazza Carlo Alberto.

From 1980 onwards the library took on its own specificity, hosting the books and magazines of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, which range from literature to history, from philosophy to philology, from art to journalism, embellishing its heritage thanks also to the presence of personal book collections of professors and scholars from the University and the area. Among these: Arturo Graf, Augusto Rostagni, Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Arturo Farinelli, Piero Martinetti, Benedetto Parini Chirio, Emanuele Artom, Annibale Pastore, Pasquale D'Ercole among the oldest collections, Paolo Murialdi, Franco Carrata Thomes, Lionello Sozzi, Arnaldo Pizzorusso among the most recent.

Today the bibliographic heritage of the "Arturo Graf" University Historical Library includes approximately 200,000 books and 520 periodical titles.