Finya is one of the oldest libraries of Puglia. It consists of a library heritage of more than eleven thousand volumes, including a manuscript of the 15th century, 14 Incunabula, 363 Cinquecentine. The Library was founded by the will of the bishop Cennini in the second half of the seventeenth century bothered to make it possible for priests to deepen their meager education. In the eighteenth century it was enriched by the library collections of Cardinal Francesco Antonio Finy. In the lunette of the library, rebuilt in 1743, stands out a seventeenth-century watchmaker on which - to celebrate the unification of Italy - were painted the faces of Garibaldi and Vittorio Emanuele II moving continuously eyes and mouth.
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