The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
Hernando Colón’s lifelong mission to create a universal library reveals the intellectual ambitions and turbulent realities of Renaissance Europe.
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books explores the life of Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, and his ambitious project to assemble a universal library.
Drawing on extensive archival research, the narrative traces Colón’s travels across Europe in pursuit of books, maps, and knowledge.
The work situates this quest within the intellectual currents of the Renaissance and the expanding print culture of the sixteenth century.
It highlights both the scale of Colón’s vision and the challenges that ultimately left much of his collection dispersed or lost.
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