The scholar gave a lecture entitled "The New Faces of Christopher Columbus, to which was closed in Valladolid (Spain)," Congress on Discovery and Mapping ", with the participation of scientists from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
Varela, Professor of American History at the University of Valladolid, said that "the physiognomy of Columbus that we have been sold, with typical portrait of the eighteenth century, have nothing to do with their real physical appearance, that was reflected in the "Book of Privileges" the discoverer.
The document published in Seville, said Efe Varela, "Columbus include all titles and rights he had acquired as Viceroy, Admiral and Governor of the Indies in 1498, in an attempt to get the firstborn, which the family discovery continues today. " From this copy
Columbus sent to four copies in 1502, before his fourth voyage to America, and from one of them, in Genoa, an Italian researcher "up the partridge" of what later developed more Varela means exhaustive and portraits, with almost total probability belonged to the figure of Columbus and his son, Diego.
These portraits accompanied a drop cap of the "Book of Privileges" of Columbus, for a person of 52 years, Varela concludes that Christopher Columbus, and a 22, which it looks like it is Diego Columbus.
Of the more than 300 portraits that are the navigator, all are made at a later time to it, while those that are included in the "Book of Privileges" were made during the life of Christopher Columbus, which is a "discovery decisive. "
So said the director of the Center for the Study of Sea-CEMAR Luis de Albuquerque (Portugal), Alfredo Pinheiro, who participated as a speaker at the Congress to develop the various existing theories about the birth of Columbus, and director of the Archives of Palaeography and Diplomatic, University of Genoa, Aldo August.
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