Dino Palloni Collection

Descriptive sheet:

Name: Dino Palloni Collection

Type: book collection

Chronological details: second half the 20th cent. - first half the 21st cent.

Size: 800 volumes, 1,200 magazine issues and abstracts. The collection also includes 6,000 slides with images of fortifications taken by Palloni and digital material he collected. Much of the material in the collection contains ex libris by Dino Palloni with a printed motto and his handwritten annotations.

Original owner: Dino Palloni

Donors: heirs

Historical-biographical profile: Dino Palloni was born in Cesenatico (Forlì-Cesena) in 1945 and died in 2012. He was a civil engineer, a passionate scholar of fortified architecture, and a historian of military buildings and castles.

Type and date of acquisition: 2022 donation

Conservation status: good

Cataloguing status: all the journals are catalogued and the remaining volumes are being processed.

Research tools: extraction of titles from the Library Catalogue; list of journals in the Annexes

Reading mode: catalogued material can be read in the library and/or borrowed.

Subject areas covered: Fortified architecture, weaponry, history of architecture, archaeology, classics of engineering and architecture, thematic maps.