Library of the Accademia della Crusca, Florence

The language society Accademia della Crusca was founded in 1583 in Florence and is considered the oldest institution of its kind in the world. The image depicts the academy's library, which remains dedicated to the study and preservation of the Italian language to this day. The name Accademia della Crusca likely derives from the Italian word for wheat bran (crusca), alluding to the biblical saying "to separate the chaff from the wheat."

Accademia della Crusca Library, color photograph, 2017, photograph: Sailko; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villa_di_castello,_biblioteca_dell%27accademia_della_crusca,_00.jpg, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en.