Was Columbus an outerspace Alien? Was he
the reincarnation of Ulysses?
I think not, but other often refuted claims
are raised by a "lazy" marketing ploy.
Those same recycled
"dog eared" questions are specifically answered in the book:
"Christopher Columbus:
Genius of the Sea" by Paolo Emilio Taviani.
It's only 78 Pages,
plus extensive Bibliography, fully available on the Web.
Taviani was commissioned
by the Italian Ministero Per I Beni Culturali E Ambientali,
National Committee
for the Celebrations of The Fifth Century Discovery of America
"Christopher Columbus:
Genius of the Sea" by Paolo Emilio Taviani
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/TAVIANI4.ART
Other good Sources that I selected from the more than 100 Columbus Web Sites on my IA PORTAL that Refute Anti-Columbus Rhetoric can be found at the end.
COLUMBUS ALERT! Will
the DISCOVERY CHANNEL do an honest, or show biz job on Columbus? Will it
be a hatchet job, or employ suspect scholarship?
COLUMBUS: SECRETS FROM THE GRAVE SEEKS THE TRUE ORIGINS OF THE GREAT NAVIGATOR
-- Scientific Examination Attempts to Answer the Mystery Surrounding his Birth, Life and his Death.
Was he Genoese Italian, or Catalan Spanish? Was he a Sephardic Jew Avoiding the Spanish Inquisition? --
-- A Special Program Premiers on August 1st at 10 PM (ET)--
Every schoolchild knows the story of Christopher Columbus, the son of a Genoese weaver who grew up and discovered America. But what if that story was wrong?
Original records of Columbus' birth and childhood have been destroyed and his writings deliberately obscure the truth, leading historians to theorize that he was hiding something, but what? Now, new scientific evidence is challenging the traditional biography of Columbus -- where he was born, where his remains rest, and the identity of his parents.
COLUMBUS: SECRETS FROM THE GRAVE offers new perspectives on the true origins of the great explorer and makes its world premiere on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, August 1st, from 10-11 PM ET/PT.
Additionally, the
program will have a simultaneous world premiere airing in Spanish on Discovery
en Español, the national Spanish-language network owned
by Discovery Networks,
U.S.
Where was Columbus really from? Why did he keep his origins shrouded in mystery? Was he really Italian? Could he have been a pirate, a Jew fleeing from the Inquisition, or the illegitimate son of a Spanish aristocrat?
Now, using cutting-edge
technology, one historian and a team of scientists are mounting a new effort
to unmask the admiral's true identity, and the fate of his remains. Historical,
lexicographic and anthropological testing may support the theory that Columbus
was not from Genoa Italy, and that he could
have been born in
Catalonia, Spain.
To attempt to answer
these intriguing questions, COLUMBUS: SECRETS
FROM THE GRAVE travels
to Seville, where reporters and citizens descend on the Cathedral to watch
as Anunciada Colon, a direct descendent of Columbus,
hands over the keys
to the chest that is reported to hold his bones.
Columbus' remains,
along with those of his brother Diego and son Hernando, are exhumed for
a series of complex DNA tests. This first-ever testing of his
remains has galvanized
the Spanish people, who believe that Christopher Columbus was Spanish,
and antagonized some Italians who have for centuries claimed Columbus as
their own with great pride.
In this special,
Professor Charles Merrill, who has studied Columbus for years, and a group
of scientists use different methods to shed some light on Columbus'
past. To test his
nationality and his level of education, experts analyze Columbus' writings
to reveal that he never used Italian, even in casual correspondence, and
that he was actually very well educated. This indicates claims that Columbus
was the son of a modest Genoese weaver might have been made from whole
cloth.
Like the mystery of his life, the fate of his remains is also shrouded in mystery. The Spanish claim to have his remains, but so does the Dominican Republic.
His bones were moved so many times they may have been inadvertently misplaced along the way. To confirm which, if any of the remains in question actually belonged to Christopher Columbus, Spanish scientist Dr. Antonio Lorente of the University of Granada attempts to match the most likely set of remains to the known remains of Columbus' brother Diego and son Hernando. Once the results prove a genetic link, the remains will be tested to add evidence to theories about his heritage.
COLUMBUS: SECRETS FROM THE GRAVE is produced for the Discovery Channel by Atlantic Productions, Anthony Geffen is executive producer. For Discovery Channel, the executive producer is Jack Smith.
Discovery Channel is one of the United States' largest cable television networks, serving 88.6 million households across the nation.
Discovery
Channel :: Christopher Columbus
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/columbus/columbus.html
Order
Sons of Italy in America
Italian Culture
and History
Christopher Columbus
http://www.osia.org/public/culture/columbus.asp
***Columbus on Trial:
1492 v. 1992 by Robert Royal
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/ROYAL-02.ART
Full Book: The
True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral
by Elbridge Streeter
Brooks
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BroTrue.html