Italian Rare Book Theft Scandal Spreads From Naples To Florence

“Following the arrest of Marino Massimo de Caro, the former director of Naples’s Girolamini library over the theft of 1,000 books from the historic institution,” he and several accomplices “confessed to stealing more books from the Biblioteca dell’Osservatorio Ximeniano and the Biblioteca Scolopica San Giovannino, both in Florence.”