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Ferdinand Columbus ( Spanish: Fernando or Hernando Colón; Portuguese: Fernando Colombo; Italian: Fernando Colombo; 15 August 1488 – 12 July 1539) was a Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer, the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Arana, whom his father never married.
Jul 7, 2018 · Ferdinand Columbus, Bibliophile The second son of Christopher Columbus amassed one of the greatest collections of books and prints of the Renaissance. Lisa Barber | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 7 July 2018
The grants of privileges and property bestowed on Christopher Columbus by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella became the subject of ongoing litigation between his descendants and the Spanish crown that lasted for centuries. The dispute was finally settled in 1796 in favor of Columbus’s descendants.
A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the results of his first voyage that set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, aboard the caravel Niña, on the return leg of his voyage. [2] .
Ferdinand Columbus ( Fernando Colombo, Fernando Colón, Hernando Colon ), the second son of Christopher Columbus, returned from the New World in 1510, and proceeded to collect one of the largest private libraries of the sixteenth century. This library, La Bibliotheca Colombina, included about 15,000 volumes, of which about 7000 survive today ...
Jun 1, 2005 · It deals with the print collection of Ferdinand Columbus, the illegitimate son of Christopher, born in 1488. Educated at the Spanish court with his half-brother, he became one of the leading Spanish humanists and an important adviser to Charles V.
Ferdinand Columbus Spanish: Fernando Colón also Hernando, Portuguese: Fernando Colombo, Italian: Fernando Colombo; c. 24 August 1488 – 12 July 1539 was a S...
