In the 15th century, the printing press century, Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, built one of the world's greatest libraries. He refused to taint his shelves with a single printed book. His bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci wrote, “In this library all the books as superlatively good, and written with the pen, and had there been one printed volume it would have been ashamed in such company." The Duke employed thirty or forty scribes to handwrite codices instead, and built a…