Joana sanz biography of christopher columbus
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Should Columbus' First Carta de las Indias Count as a Work of Catalan Letters?
By Charles J. Merrill
Mount Saint Mary's College
1994
Paper presented in the V Catalan Symposium (nov.1994). .
Cp. Suzanne S. Hintz, Essays in Honor of Josep M. Solà-Solé
[New York: Peter Lang, 1996]
Why should anything written by the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus be
counted as Catalan literature? Yes, many people consider Columbus not to have
been Genoese at all, but a Catalonian. And if he were, then the letter he wrote
in 1493 to Ferdinand and Isabella on his way back from the Indies, called "the
most important printed document of universal history [1]," is one of the most
significant things written by anyone of his nation.
This study addresses not only the claim that since Columbus was Catalan, anything he wrote belongs to the
literature of Catalonia; it also addresses why the 1493 letter provides both
external and internal evidence that its author was not from Genoa —or Corsica,
Greece, Croatia, Norway, Galicia, or Castile, as has also been claimed— but from
somewhere in the Països Catalans.
First it may be useful to give a very brief overview of the question of
Columbus's nationality [2] . It is only fair to say that the upholders of the
official
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COLUMBUS WAS A SEPHARDIC JEW.
Author: FRANCESC ALBARDANER
Written in July / August 2022; in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Catalonia).
To be published in: ARMORIA; Butlletí de la Institució Catalana de Genealogia i Heràldica, N.12; October 2022. (Draft 1)
The Sarajevo Haggadah is a masterpiece of the Catalan Sephardic art (Barcelona, circa 1350).
ABSTRACT
Since 2003, the University of Granada, with the collaboration of several international universities, has been trying to find the ADN of Christopher Columbus from the samples taken from the bones of Columbus resting in his monument of the Cathedral of Sevilla. It is now probable that, in the near future, we will know the final results of such genetical analysis, that we expect to read in a scientific article to be published in some important scientific bulletin.
In this article the author analyses the possibility that the analytical results may assert that the Mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) of Cristopher Columbus belongs to a typical MtDNA of Sephardic Jewish women and how would this fact alter the accepted biography of Columbus with a Genovese origin.
As such result may force to alter the “national” origin of Columbus, as well as his religious beliefs, the author considers necessary to explain with full detail the politic
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Columbus's letter triumph the primary voyage
1493 manner by Christopher Columbus
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