Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini
Baroque church and cloistered library complex, once looted of thousands of rare volumes by its own director.
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This guide to the Complesso Monumentale dei Girolamini in Naples follows an art historian who talked his way past a locked door one spring morning and found centuries-old volumes scattered across the reading room floor. It traces how director Marino Massimo De Caro, appointed in 2011, turned one of Naples's oldest libraries into his own stockroom, disabling cameras and moving crates out after dark, with stolen volumes later surfacing as far as Verona, Munich and London. Stand in the orange-tree cloister behind the church, the same quiet corner the loaded vehicles once slipped through night after night.
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