The
Petraca and Piccolomini Museum of Trieste preserves a bibliographic and iconographic collection concerning the life of the 14th century writer
Francesco Petrarca and of
Enea Silvio Piccolomini, bishop of Trieste and later Pope, with the name Pious II (1405 - 1464).
At present, it makes up the
richest collection of Petrarca's editions preserved in Italy. The Petrarchesco and Piccolomineo museum contains
printed volumes, ancient manuscripts, incunables (early printed books by printing presses during the second half of the XV century, archive documents, prints, drawings, paintings, miniatures, plasters, medals, etc. regarding the writer from Arezzo and Pope Pius II.
