Academia de la Crusca library, Special research library in Florence, Italy

Academia de la Crusca library is a specialized research institution in Florence focused on Italian language and linguistic studies. It sits within a 15th-century villa and holds manuscript collections, early printed books, and extensive materials documenting Italian grammar and vocabulary research.

Founded in 1583 to advance Italian language scholarship, the academy began building its systematic collection in the late 1600s. The holdings later moved to the Villa Medicea di Castello, where the library operates today.

The name Crusca means 'bran' in Italian, the husk sifted from grain, an image the academy adopted for its work of separating good Italian from chaff. The library's central hall is lined with the Fondo dei Citati: the 1,729 works cited across the five editions of the Vocabolario, the texts the academicians treated as constitutive of the Italian language.

Access to the library requires advance registration for researchers seeking specialized materials and rare documents. Visitors should communicate their research interests beforehand so staff can prepare relevant collections for their visit.

The library's central hall is lined with the Fondo dei Citati: 1,729 works cited by the Accademici across the five editions of the Vocabolario, the texts they judged constitutive of the Italian language. Bruno Migliorini, whose 10,000 books and offprints arrived in 1976, was a linguist, not a literary critic.