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"A Letter addressed to the noble Lord Raphael Sanchez, &tc.", in R.H. Major, editor, 1848, Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents relating to his four voyages to the New World. London: Hakluyt, contains bilingually a Latin transcription and English translation of the third Roman (Silber) edition.
Map of the Caribbean Sea with possible itineraries of Columbus' voyages.. The Columbus Copy Book consists of 38 folios, measuring 230 x 330 mm and written on both sides. [8] It contains the transcriptions of nine documents apparently written by Christopher Columbus between 1493 and 1503 and all addressed to the King and Queen of Spain: one 'letter-relation' about Columbus' First Voyage to the ...
Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage. The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera , to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue addressing the sovereigns . [ 1 ]
On Christopher Columbus: 16 July 1892 44. Magnae Dei Matris: Of the great Mother of God: On the Rosary: 8 September 1892 45. Custodi di quella fede: On Freemasonry: 8 December 1892 46. Inimica vis: On Freemasonry: 8 December 1892 47. Ad extremas: To the farthest: Seminaries for Native Clergy: 24 June 1893 48. Constanti Hungarorum: On the Church ...
Irving was a fiction writer and employed his talent to create an hyperbolic story of Christopher Columbus. [ 1 ] During the research, he worked closely with Alexander von Humboldt , who had recently returned from his own North and South American trip, and could provide deep knowledge of the geography and science of the Americas and together ...
The publication of the book was followed by the protracted legal battles between Columbus's family and the Spanish crown, known as the pleitos colombinos. The book also contains a document in which Columbus refers to the New World as the Indias Occidentales (' West Indies '), which he says "were unknown to all the world", seeming to imply that ...