Colón, Not Columbus: Dr. Manuel Rosa on the 500-Year Identity Mystery Behind the Man Who “Discovered” America.
Portuguese-American historian Dr. Manuel Rosa has spent thirty-five years challenging the accepted story of Christopher Columbus, and in this episode of Podcast Portugal he explains why the man history remembers as an Italian weaver was, in his view, never Italian at all. Rosa traces the confusion to a fifteenth-century printing error in Rome that sent non-Spanish historians searching for a “Colombo” in Italy, while Spain had always known the navigator by a different name entirely: Colón.
Central to Rosa’s research is the marriage of Colón to Filipa Moniz, a high-ranking Portuguese noblewoman…
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