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The project explores the legacy of Hernando Colón's library, focusing on its role in the history of knowledge management and bibliographic systems. It aims to reconstruct the library's content and understand its impact on early modern information processing and the book market.
While newly printed books were circulating widely around Europe, when more than half a century had passed since Gutenbergs invention, Hernando Coln (1488-1539), second son of Christopher Columbus, undertook the extraordinary challenge of keeping physical track of the proliferation of knowledge.
He not only purchased everything, incessantly, and everywhere, marking on the books place and date of purchase, the local price, and the conversion to Spanish currency; for accessing, managing and reusing…
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
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