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)
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Genova impressions-7 " Contemporary Italians did have some sense of the direction from which the plague came from, though they did not blame the Genoese for…
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Genova impressions-5 Yesterday it felt like the quarantine for the first time: customers in the icecream queue held a one-meter distance, and the bartender pouring the…
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