Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable

and perfect.

Romans 12 2 This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh,

Feast Network. In 1520, when Charles V, grandson of Aragon's King Ferdinand and Castile's Queen Isabella, made his way to Charlemagne's

venerable Aiken Cathedral for his lavish coronation ceremonies. He was accompanied by the courtier

Hernando Cologne. The youngest son of Christopher Columbus, Hernando, had traveled with the young emperor to France and

England through the Habsburg dominions of the Netherlands and Austria into Burgundy and Hanover.

Indeed, he was a trusted member of the Royal Imperial Court of the Holy Roman Empire. Everywhere he went,

Hernando bought books. First by the hundreds, then by the thousands. He bought everything

on which he could lay his hands, and then he had the books shipped back to his home in the

Andalusian city of Seville, where he built a library to house them.

He actually attempted to collect and catalog every single printed book in the world, and he very nearly succeeded.

It was an astonishing feat. It is an astonishing story. Beginning in

1509, Hernandez served as the imperial emissary to the Vatican, and it was there that he began

to deepen his already encyclopedic knowledge of history, geography, literature, theology, and philosophy.

There, he met Michelangelo and witnessed the unveiling of the completed Sistine Chapel.

He met Leonardo and witnessed his work in progress, the painting St. Jerome in the wilderness.

He was given access to the Medici Bibliotheca Palatina, which was the foundation of what would become the Vatican Library.

He took in lectures at the Studium Urbe's Rome's premier university, and it was there that he was given the opportunity to haunt the

burgeoning bookshops of the city. He collected both the great classics and the less popular works.

While he was with Charles in the Germanic Hephsburg Dominions, he began to purchase the books, pamphlets, hymsheets, and broadsides

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