The Lost Library of Hernando Columbus !!

 Cristoforo Colombo

I heard him about Christopher Columbus - " Admiral " did not realize that there was a continent within decades, this unexplored land evolved into an empire, Columbus had two sons. Hernando was the only illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus. Kigo Columbus was the legitimate son of the explorer; when a collection of printed books existed.

Cambridge University literature author Edward Wilson recently published (2019), the only book describing the life of Colombia's second son Hernando and his stunning obsession with books. His goal was to create a global library of books that could be sought for information on every subject in the world. Hernando's great ambition will transform his great office into the first "database" information. Follow these books by traveling

Born in 1488, Hernando is the reason for the fact that a printing press was invented forty years ago. He began to assemble in 1509 until his death in 1539

We wanted to build his office all over the world. He couldn't do the job? In 2019, a dense 2,000-page volume was discovered in Scandinavia, titled "El Libro de los Epítomes" or "Book of Epitomes," which was missing three hundred and fifty years ago. The contents of many books have been summarized and categorized into some kind of systematic structure. I believe that many of the books summarized in this collection fortunately, explain what the European read more than five hundred years ago (Typeroom website, August 2, 2019).

The second son of Christopher in everything related to mixing from 1450, from 1509 until his death in 1539; in his book on the book (writings sunken books). He recognizes Hernando? According to the author, Hernando. Manuscripts, booklets and posters are pubs - all of which have entered their way into his library. "(" The Guardian ").

After nearly thirty years of wandering the streets of Europe, exploring libraries and buying everything he did not buy, Hernando died, as well as his books. Today, only a quarter of his collection has been stored in Seville under administration since 1552. Many have been stolen and others have been damaged by floods. However, many books are a huge amount, even in today's quantities in the medium-sized library.

Hernando tried to preserve his father's honor by collecting a "new world" from many books. While Hernando's father Christopher discovered parts of the New World that Spain soon claimed to be part of an empire, Hernando discovered books that he dreamed of becoming an empire for learning. Although Christopher himself failed to build a profitable source of wealth for Spain, the Hernando Library did not become the source of knowledge, as he had hoped, for the Spanish people. Eventually, the Columbus family name fell from history.