She too died early, in 1406, and Paolo Guinigi commissioned to sculptor Jacopo della Quercia a funerary monument, now housed in the Cathedral of Lucca.

The initial phase will concentrate on the monuments housed in the churches and subject them to dusting, washing and cleaning.

Bought or not, though, it remains one of several specialist research libraries in the NYPL system, as well as one of the best free attractions in the city - a monument to learning, housed in a grand, Beaux Arts building that reflects its big-money industrialist roots.