Within a few years of the invention of printing by Johann Gutenberg (1448), printing houses were also founded in Cologne (1464), Basel (1466), Rome (1467), Venice (1469), Nuremberg, Utrecht and Paris (1470), Florence, Milan and Naples (1471), Augsburg (1472), Budapest, Lyon and Valencia (1473), Krakow and Bruges (1474), Lübeck and Breslau (1475), Westminster and Rostock (1476), Geneva, Palermo and Messina (1478), London (1480).
