The History of Travail in the West and East Indies

One effect of gutenberg's revolution was to create an insatiable desire for knowledge and information. With an eager market of consumers, printers realized how lucrative a commercial under taking this was. For example, the report by pedro morcon from japan describing the beginning of the persecution of christians in 16 14 was brought to rome as a manuscript,. edited, translated into italian and published by bartolomeo zanetti from europe. It was sent to mexico, recast into spanish and printed locally by joann ruis just two years later. But it was not only catholic presses, official or clandestine that were interested in these books. We have