Thankyou to our wonderful spy in the cab KMB who spotted this great radio piece on Australia’s ABC presented by veteran broadcaster Phillip Adams
While Christopher Columbus was obsessed with striking gold in the New World, back home in sixteenth-century Seville, his son Hernando was obsessed with a very different kind of quest.
Columbus’s youngest son was a compulsive bibliophile who travelled Renaissance Europe, collecting the riches pouring off the newly-invented printing press.
Five hundred years before Google Books, Hernando Colón dreamt of creating a Universal Library where all the world’s knowledge would be gathered in one place.
