β Campbell, Amy-Alex
π Fiction
π
2020
π AAC Publishing
π English
β 98 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
β Scribed by Edward Wilson-Lee
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0008146233
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one man's life spent collecting every book on every subject β including antique and modern worlds, science and law, as well as playing cards, pornography, and popular music. Who was Hernando Columbus and how did he achieve this? Set to the backdrop of Christopher Columbus' paradigm-defining explorations of the New World and beyond, and cutting across events of the Renaissance and Reformation, this book follows Hernando Columbus' bibliomania and curation of the first ever library of its kind. As the 'natural son' of Christopher (conceived out of wedlock), Hernando had a complex relationship to his father and an acute need to validate his position. Hernando was still a young child during the exploration of 1492 β Christopher's many travels kept them apart for months at a time. While originally from Liguria, Italy, it is in Spain that Christopher found travel patronage. The newly...
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