Abstract
The documentary evidence of the Genoese origins of Christopher Columbus, published by the Italian Institute of Graphic Arts in 1931 at the expense of the Genoa Town Council, in fact proves only that the discoverer of America could not have been the ‘Cristóforo Colombo’ that they identified among his many namesakes who lived in Southern Europe in the fifteenth century.
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Barreto, M. (1992). Documentation of Columbus’s Origins. In: The Portuguese Columbus. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21994-0_7
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