Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi, better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth, and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian, becoming the Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866.
Anthony Panizzi
Anthony Panizzi by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair
Bust of Panizzi by Carlo Marochetti in the British Library, London
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
Aerial view of the British Museum
The Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room.
Sir Hans Sloane
Montagu House, c. 1715