It is to this intent the two globes that we admire today in the Salone Furietti of Angelo Mai Library arrived in Bergamo. The history of the two globes is closely tied to cultural events and policies that have affected the city of Bergamo in the last 500 years. The two Coronelli globes came to Bergamo in 1692, when Angelo Finardi, man of letters and Augustinian friar was librarian at the Augustinian monastery. He commissioned ta man to buy them in Venice just with the intent of equipping the monastery library with essential tools of culture. In 1797, the monastery was suppressed. Both the globes met with the confiscations of Napoleonic laws and were on the way to Paris, gathered along with the Versailles globes. Nevertheless, thanks are owed to the noble Giovanni Battista Vertova, who hid the two globes in his home in 1834, and to his son Andrea, by whom they were donated to the Bergamo Library.