The municipal library draws its origins from the volumes confiscated from the library of the Convent of Colleviti by the government of the Kingdom of Italy in 1867 and from some legacies of illustrious citizens of Pescia. In the early twentieth century the 'Magnani Library' had become a true center of culture. Local and Tuscan scholars met in the consultation rooms: Carlo Nardini, Guido Biagi, Giorgio Magnani, Ugo Ojetti and Lorenzo Viani. Thanks to acquisitions of funds, manuscripts and private collections, the library's heritage has become increasingly considerable, both for its value and for the number of volumes and documents, so much that started to be known beyond the borders of the Valdinievole. Since 1999, the library has moved to Villa Sismondi, the residence of the Geneva economist J. Ch. Seismonde de Sismondi.

What is the Children's library of Pescia? First of all, it is a bright place where you can find answers to the curiosities of children, but also parents. The Library is located at the Limonaia of Villa Sismondi, reserved exclusively for children and girls, a place to inform themselves, to do researches but also a place to meet other kids, to do funny workshops with some friends and, in these times of anticovid behavior, it's not a small thing. In order to allow children to have many opportunities for individual and small group researches, encouraging new, creative and inventive ideas, the library will help them to find the correct information, both on books and on the internet, so they can be easy to find, easy to understand and to compare even with paper texts.

The teachers of the Sismondi-Berlinghieri-Pacinotti Institute tell their stories through their artistic experiences and their extracurricular passions, discussing and conversing about art, literature, philosophy, music, mathematics and much more.

The meetings, held monthly, aim to enhance the spaces of the Biblioteca Comunale Carlo Magnani of Pescia to open it to the citizens and make it a lively, creative, dynamic place, where the arts contaminate each other. The library thus becomes a meeting and aggregation place, a hotbed of ideas and reflections for the entire community.

The meetings were moderated by Professor Lorenzo Giordani and the Councilor for Culture Alina Coraci.

Plan
Tuesday 8th October
5.30 pm – Of this thing you call life: Francesco Guccini modern storyteller
With Alfredo Marasti and Lorenzo Giordani

Tuesday, November 5th
5:30 PM – The Adventures of Pythagoras, or How to Overcome the Phobia of Mathematics
With Gioia Giannotti

Tuesday, December 10
5:30 PM – Gesture, Body and Abstraction. Dialogues on Art
With Antonio Cavotta and Daniele Caprio

Tuesday, January 14th
5:30 PM – Education without borders. The example of Irena Sendler in the Warsaw ghetto
With Francesco Iadorola

Tuesday 11th February
5.30pm – A splendid combination: dance and theatre at school
With Roberta Monti and Rossella De Luca

Tuesday 11th March
17.30 – Fleur Jaeggy or perfection
With Matteo moca

Tuesday, April 15th
5:30 PM – A Room of Our Own. Virginia Woolf: Encountering Philosophy in Literature
With Arianna Vettori

Tuesday 20th May
5.30pm – Myriadminded man: Jottings on Joyce
With Cristina Brancoli

Tuesday 17th June
5.30 pm – Ultimo D'Annunzio: musical elegy of the Poet
With Alfredo Marasti