Christopher Columbus: A Brief Biography. References. By Nola Taylor Tillman published 5 October 2012 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

But as the subtitle – “Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library” – doesn’t quite say, this is, in fact, a biography of that son, Hernando Colón.

A statue of Christopher Columbus is shown at New York’s Columbus Circle, August, 2017. (AP Photo / Bebeto Matthews) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

Tucked inside historian Alan Mikhail’s new biography of Sultan Selim, the ambitious early-16 th-century ruler of the Ottoman Empire, is a riveting series of chapters about Christopher Columbus.

Columbus is widely credited with opening the door to European colonization, yet much of his biography is murky. Though tradition claims he hailed from Genoa, some experts have suggested Portuguese ...

Christopher Columbus was a narcissist. He believed he was personally chosen by God for a mission that no one else could achieve. After 1493, he signed his name "xpo ferens" — "the Christbearer." ...

To commemorate Columbus Day I collected some myths about Christopher Columbus which many people believe vs. the facts historians have pointed to: Myth: Columbus set out to prove the earth was round.

One of the primary historical "facts" many of us learned as schoolchildren was that "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," and in three ships named the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria ...

The Columbus flat-earth myth perhaps originated with Washington Irving's 1828 biography of Columbus; there's no mention of this before that. His crew wasn't nervous about falling off the earth.

It's the stuff of a Hollywood blockbuster: Five hundred years ago, a son of Christopher Columbus assembled one of the greatest libraries the world has ever known. The volumes inside were mostly ...