Since 1838, the activity of Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti run uninterruptedly till nowadays. The first seat of the IVSLA was Palazzo Ducale then it transferred, in 1893, to Palazzo Loredan. In 1999 it was bought Palazzo Franchetti, and it inaugurated in 2004. The Institute accounts for 290 fellows, divided in two Classes (Class of Sciences and Class of Humanities); each Class is made of fellows (soci effettivi), corresponding fellows (soci corrispondenti), foreign fellows (soci stranieri) and honorary fellows (soci onorari). Fellows are formally appointed by the Ministry of Cultural Affaires after being elected by the Assembly of the soci effettivi. The Institute's activities include monthly academic meetings (adunanze), where fellows present their studies to be published on the magazine «Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti». The Institute also regularly promotes meetings, conferences and seminars on Sciences, Humanities and Art. The Institute publishes and prints books (presently the catalogue accounts over 100 titles). Particular attention is devoted to diffusion of culture by audiovisual media, information technology and internet communications. The Institute owns a rich library (over 300.000 volumes) and several archives, including that of Luigi Luzzatti, Italian prime minister in 1911. Roberto Ardigò, Giovanni Canestrini, Giuseppe Colombo, Galileo Ferraris, Tullio Levi Civita, Guglielmo Marconi, Angelo Messedaglia, Umberto Nobile, Pietro Paleocapa, Louis Pasteur, Antonio Pacinotti, Gregorio Ricci Curbastro, Giuseppe Jappelli, Quintino Sella. Carlo Anti, Bernard Berenson, Camillo Boito, Vittore Branca, Giosuè Carducci, Fernand Braudel, Antonio Canova, André Chastel, Carlo Cipolla, Benedetto Croce, Francesco De Sanctis, Giacomo Devoto, Francesco Ferrara, Antonio Fogazzaro, Giuseppe Gerola, Virgilio Guidi, Ferdinand Gregorovius, René Huyghe, Frederic C. Lane, Luigi Luzzatti, Francesco Malipiero, Terenzio Mamiani, Alessandro Manzoni, Concetto Marchesi, Luigi Meneghello, Jules Michelet, Marco Minghetti, Pompeo Molmenti, Theodor Mommsen, Costantino Nigra, Pierre de Nolhac, Aldo Palazzeschi, Gaston Palewski, Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, Leopold von Ranke, Alfred von Reumont, Antonio Rosmini, Luigi Settembrini, Diego Valeri, Pasquale Villari, Giacomo Zanella.