Turin National University Library
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National University Library (Biblioteca nazionale universitaria in Italian) in Turin, Italy, is one of country's main libraries.
It was founded in 1720 as Royal University Library by Victor Amadeus II, who unified collections from Turin's university library and from Savoy's ducal stock, and it was then named National library in 1872, after Italian unification. In 1904 a fire destroyed thousands of books and manuscripts from the library.
At present time it owns over 1 million books, 12.000 periodicals, 3.700 manuscripts and 1.600 incunabula.
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