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A guild of stationers was formed in London.
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She publishes a history of female virtue; La Cite des dames
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Printed the Belles Heures in manuscript color, a private devotional book.
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The first French Library moved from England to France
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The first Guild Hall Library was established in London
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Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. She was considered to be the national heroine of France.
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Cosimo de' Medici, a patron of the arts, becomes the ruler of Florence.
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Cosimo de' Medici founded the Laurentian Library
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Johannes Gutenburg has set up the printing press as a commercial operation, thus enabling the mass production of books
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A copy of Dante's Divine Comedy was publshed
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Malatestiana Library in Cessena, Italy was the first public library.
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The Gutenburg Bible was printed
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First to be wholly finished mechanically and be printed in color.
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Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew
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Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English by William Caxton
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The first book with woodcut decoration was published by Erhard Ratdolt
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1st book printed in Oxford, England
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Is set up in the Abbey Gateway, St. Albans.
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Robert Henryson composed The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian
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Martin Luther was born
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Sir Thomas Mallory completes Morte d' Arthur; a book
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The Uneversity of Oxford receives their first books
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Aldine Press founded in Venice by Aldus Manutius
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Romantic poem written by Italian renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo
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An illustrated Italian version was published in Venice
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Discorso sopra le cose Pisa was written by Machiavelli