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The Gutenberg Bible
Somewhere in the year 1454 or 1455, in a rented workshop in the city of Mainz, a goldsmith named Johann Gutenberg pulled the bar of a wooden screw press and lifted away…
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The Soncino Dynasty
In the spring of 1483, when the municipal council of the fortified borough of Soncino in the lower territory of Cremona granted an imperial patent to a family of German-Jewish loan bankers…