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Article: PERTINENT FACTS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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- The Italian Voice
- Article date:
- October 12, 1995
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Alfred Weiss
Italian Voice, The
10-12-1995
PERTINENT FACTS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
BORN: c. October, 1451, in Genoa, Italy.
PARENTS: Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa.
MARRIED: Filippa Moniz Perestrello, who bore him one son, Diego, born c. 1480. She died in 1483. In 1487 he fell in love with Beatriz Enrique de Arana, who bore him a son, called Fernando, on August 15, 1488,
EARLY YEARS: About 1476 Columbus moved to Portugal. Later he traveled to England and to Madeira. In 1485 he presented his plan for a voyage across the ocean to the king of Spain. He reached an agreement with the Spanish sovereigns which was signed on April 17, 1492.
FIRST VOYAGE: August 3, 1492 with three ships: ...
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