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Oct 29, 2009 · The grandson of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who had funded Christopher Columbus’s expedition to the New World in 1492, received Magellan’s petition with the same favor shown by his ...
Nov 9, 2009 · The explorer Christopher Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. ... the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.
Ferdinand Columbus's library, which also includes a number of volumes from the personal library of his father Christopher Columbus, is preserved in the Cathedral of the City of Seville in Andalucia. Among the volumes in La Bibliotheca Colombina is the manuscript catalogue of Ferdinand's print collection.
Ferdinand Columbus is the author of America Discovery and Exploration (4.50 avg rating, 2 ratings, 1 review, published 1925), Nuova Raccolta Colombiana, ...
Oct 18, 2021 · Ferdinand Columbus was the superhero who decided to do so. He had a collection of between 15,000 and 20,000 books while even the most bookaholics at his time had not more than 300.
Columbus the route by which he steered his caravels amid the verdant, perfume-laden isles that dot the sea near Cuba, as he sailed westward in the month of May, 1494, with the project not only of finding a new route to India, but of actually sailing round the world. This we know from what Ferdinand Columbus tells us in a passage undoubtedly de-
Mar 15, 2024 · Isabella I, queen of Castile (1474–1504) and of Aragon (1479–1504), ruling the two kingdoms jointly from 1479 with her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their rule effected the permanent union of Spain and the beginning of an overseas empire in the New World, led by Christopher Columbus under Isabella’s sponsorship.