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Francis Macaulay Library of Dante, Petrarch and Tasso

Francis Campbell Macaulay built an extraordinary collection of early editions of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Tasso, which he bequeathed to Penn in 1896.

He also established a fund to continue developing the Library collections on the works of Dante and Tasso.