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Ambrosian Library , founded c.1605 in Milan by Cardinal Federigo Borromeo. It became one of the earliest libraries to be opened to the public. The library's collection is rich in classical manuscripts, notably Homer and Vergil, in incunabula, and in Oriental texts. It also contains Leonardo da Vinci's profusely illustrated Codex Atlanticus.

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Ambrosiana (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana), Milan. Picture gallery established in 1618 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo (see Crespi, Giovanni Battista) as a sister institution to the Ambrosian Library (Biblioteca Ambrosiana), which he founded in 1609 in honour of St Ambrose, patron saint of the city. In his book De pictura sacra (1624) Borromeo explains that the gallery was intended as a public resource in line with the Council of Trent's call for the faithful to be educated through images as well as words. It has a small but choice collection of Italian and Flemish paintings ( Borromeo's friend Jan Brueghel is well represented) and an important collection of drawings, including works by Leonardo and Raphael. In Borromeo's time the Ambrosiana also included an art academy (formally founded in 1620, but active from about 1613); however, it stopped functioning soon after his death in 1631.

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