1) He was anti-Muslim.
2) He supported slavery.
3) He bequeathed 10% of his prospective income to the city (which eventually didn't pan out).
(source: Steven Epstein, Genoa and the Genoese)
Three indications that Christopher Columbus was a Genovese
1) He was anti-Muslim.
2) He supported slavery.
3) He bequeathed 10% of his prospective income to the city (which eventually didn't pan out).
(source: Steven Epstein, Genoa and the Genoese)
Posts from This Journal “genova” Tag
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Another Shanghailander chooses Liguria after ten years in China
The entrepreneur Sir Thomas Hanbury (1832–1907) was a resident of Shanghai in the 1850s and 1860s; multiple local schools were named in…
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The Tick (1925)
This short story, entitled The Tick (1922), by the émigré writer Sasha Chorny, is set in a resort in Nervi, Genova. A retired…
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The Art Nouveau World
This exists! I joined, to add more Genova buildings.
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