当歌伦布刚刚发现美洲大陆时,文艺复兴的新学问都集中在意大利的图书馆,还有一个半岛文化的突出前哨是匈牙利的马赛厄斯·科文努斯的宫廷。一百年以后,这个模式完全被改变。只有梵蒂冈图书馆仍然保持着它的地位,布达佩斯已经被土耳其人所攻占,另有两个著名的15世纪意大利图书馆已经消失,剩下的意大利图书馆也因在阿尔卑斯山 When Golomb was first discovered on the American continent, new knowledge of the Renaissance was concentrated in the Italian library, and the outstanding outpost of a Peninsula culture was the court of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. A hundred years later, this model has been completely changed. Only the Vatican Library still holds its place, Budapest has been occupied by the Turks, and two other famous 15th century Italian libraries have disappeared. The rest of the Italian libraries have also been damaged by the Alps