Talk:Christopher Columbusの英語

"Christopher Columbus and I,
In 2004 a friend from the University of the Canary Islands came to Lisbon intent to conducting research on Christopher Columbus in Portugal. My friends and I, the vast majority teachers, told him to go to Italy. He returned to the Canaries with the feeling that Columbus's life in Portugal was unimportant. The work of Mascarenhas Barreto on Colombo, dated 1989 was known to me. The truth be told, academia saw that work as of little worth and therefore I did not read it much less recommend it. In 2005, I enjoyed the novel by Jose Rodrigues dos Santos in a fictional scenario that exposes some historical facts, although romanticized, aroused my curiosity to learn more on the subject. Luckily, in October 2006, Manuel Rosa and Eric J, Steele published an important book about Columbus. The theme and the multiplicity of new facts presented by these two authors, showed me my grave ignorance on the issue of the nationality of Columbus and all that it involves.
Since then in my spare time I have read an extensive bibliography on this subject, on the characters around him and their time, as well as all documents written by Columbus himself. The first finding that one easily arrives at is that some of the brightest of the Portuguese historians, as Vitorino Magalhães Godinho and Avelino Teixeira da Mota, wrote real atrocities about Columbus revealing a huge amount of ignorance of the Portuguese scholars on this subject. They merely repeated what others had written, without critically examining the existing documentation. Those who held other interpretations in Portugal, often did nothing to restore the facts and to frame the issue within the Portuguese court. Most abused esoteric readings, genealogical and heraldic by believing in a Genoese Columbus they simply refused to review any documents. The result was an authentic pseudo-biographical delusional history that no person with a minimum of common sense and historical knowledge of the times can accept. Given this very poor picture of Portuguese historiography on Columbus, it is not surprising that references to Portugal in numerous biographies and studies of Columbus is full of factual errors and a very incomplete and distorted view of the Portuguese contribution to the discoveries. One could not to expect anything else given the absence of experts in Portugal on the subject of Columbus. Following up on the investigation presented in Manuel Rosa's third book, the documentation I have collected to answer the riddle of Columbus's identity is so vast, that I wonder about the social and cultural significance of this indifference of Portuguese intellectuals on the subject. I am now convinced that the current history is a monumental Italian and Spanish hoax, only possible because it was fueled by a profound ignorance of Columbus's life by the Portuguese historians.
As a modest contribution, we will publish new data in a systematic way about Columbus, supported by a vast literature and unpublished or little known documents. In the footnotes will be pointing out the bibliographic and documentary sources consulted in order for the more interested reader to verify the authenticity of the evidence.
Professor Carlos Fontes