Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Matthias Corvinas” in chapter 6, entry fork of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...e Lombards in the fourteenth century; and Martius states that they were common in Italy in the fifteenth century.
Table-forks are heard of in Italy from 1458 to 1490.
An Italian at the court of Matthias Corvinas , king of Hungary, notices the lack of the fork in the table furniture of the king.
A century after, they were not known in France or Sweden.
Coryat, in his Crudities, 1611, says: I observed a ...
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