Venice's Biblioteca Marciana is completed in 1590 on the Piazza San Marco after more than a century of construction following a plan by the late Jacopo Sansovino.

Sansovino had died in 1570, but in 1588, Vincenzo Scamozzi had undertaken the construction of the additional five bays, still to Sansovino's design, which brought the building down to the molo or embankment, next to Sansovino's building for the Venetian mint, the Zecca.

The Biblioteca Marciana is today one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in Italy, holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world.