Digital Library

In agreement with a number of important cultural institutions, the BEIC Foundation has begun to create a digital library with the aim of making available a wide array of ancient texts of particular scientific interest and value.

Acts by Italian Academies (Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Lombardy Academy of Science and Humanities)
500 volumes, with review of the articles. In collaboration with the Braidense National Library.

Classics of European Law
300 works in ancient and modern editions by jurists and works on common civil law and cannon law from the XII-XVIII Centuries. In collaboration with the University of Milan’s History of Medieval and Modern Law Institute.

Classics of Medicine
250 works. In collaboration with the University of Milan’s Centro APICE.

Classics of Mathematics
Over 1000 works. In collaboration with the Giardino di Archimede and the History of Science Institute and Museum of Florence.

Classics of Science
Around 1500 printed works by Italian and European scientists of the XV-XVIII Centuries. In collaboration with the History of Science Institute and Museum of Florence, the Turin Academy of Sciences and the University Library of Pavia.

Classics of Economy
150 works. In collaboration with the Mattioli Foundation.

Classics of Theology
200 works. In collaboration with the University Library of Pavia.

Aristotelian Commentaries from the 1500s
200 works. In collaboration with the University of Milan’s Philosophy Department.

Vernacular Incunabula
Digitization of all the existing vernacular incunabula. In collaboration with the Department of Italian Studies and Performance of the La Sapienza University of Rome.

Historians, Chroniclers and Documents from Medieval Italy
Printed sources of chronicles and documents from Medieval Italy. In collaboration with the International Society for the Study of the Latin Middle Ages (SISMEL) in Florence and the Italian Historical Institute of the Middle Ages in Rome.

Travels in Italy
Printed works about travels in Italy by Italian and European figures from the XVI-XIX Centuries. Currently ongoing.

Each of these sectors calls for a series of additional modules to be developed over the years. An integral part of the BEIC Foundation’s plans is the digitization of works in other disciplinary fields, which will gradually include all the main branches of humanistic and scientific knowledge through fundamental works and authors, not only those with European roots. Planned alongside this digitization is the creation of guided routes that will allow for the identification of areas of interest by topic and the consultation of previously digitized material, thus accompanying users in their interdisciplinary research. Projects in the fields of the sciences and the humanities are currently being studied. The BEIC Foundation has promoted a survey of the digital collections at Italian universities, conducted by Professor Laura Tallandini (University of Padua) in collaboration with the Italian Digital Library [Biblioteca Digitale Italiana], the Minerva network and the CRUI Conference of Italian University Rectors.