Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

In 1866, after the annexation of Venetia to Kingdom of Italy, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti was recognized as one of the most prestigious Italian academies.

Since 1838, the activity of Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti run uninterruptedly till nowadays.

The institute's activities include monthly academic meetings (adunanze), where fellows present their studies to be published on the magazine «Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti».

The institute owns a rich library (over 300.000 volumes) and several archives, including that of Luigi Luzzatti, Italian prime minister in 1911.

Carlo Anti, Bernard Berenson, Camillo Boito, Vittore Branca, Giosuè Carducci, Fernand Braudel, Antonio Canova, André Chastel, Carlo Cipolla, Benedetto Croce, Francesco De Sanctis, Giacomo Devoto, Francesco Ferrara, Antonio Fogazzaro, Giuseppe Gerola, Virgilio Guidi, Ferdinand Gregorovius, René Huyghe, Frederic C. Lane, Luigi Luzzatti, Francesco Malipiero, Terenzio Mamiani, Alessandro Manzoni, Concetto Marchesi, Luigi Meneghello, Jules Michelet, Marco Minghetti, Pompeo Molmenti, Theodor Mommsen, Costantino Nigra, Pierre de Nolhac, Aldo Palazzeschi, Gaston Palewski, Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, Leopold von Ranke, Alfred von Reumont, Antonio Rosmini, Luigi Settembrini, Diego Valeri, Pasquale Villari, Giacomo Zanella.