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"Christopher Columbus is Italian, enough with the discussions about his origin"

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"Christopher Columbus is Italian, enough with the discussions about his
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The latest study reignites the debate, but Gabriella Airaldi has no doubts: "The Genoese origin of Columbus is also described in his writings"

"There are so many documents about the Genoese origin of Christopher Columbus that it cannot be doubted ," says Gabriella Airaldi, a specialist in the history of international and intercultural relations from the Middle Ages to the modern era, who was awarded the Colombian Medal on Saturday in Genova, as an "internationally renowned illustrative historian".

A recent study, however, claims that Columbus may have been half Jewish and half Spanish, and this has caused much debate in historians' circles.

On this topic, La Repubblica has had a conversation with the historian Airaldi.

Professor, the controversy continues, now some scholars have concluded that he was Spanish and a Sephardic Jew…

"In the archives of Genoa there are many testimonies of the period that say the opposite, he himself wrote letters both to Fieschis and to the ambassador of Genoa, to whom he handed over his book of privileges. He writes to the Banco di San Giorgio where he refers to the Genoese homeland, the examples could be endless. Colombo's Genoese origins are contained in his writings."

So does this bone analysis remain untrue?

"It is hard to believe, since there is the problem of knowing where the tomb of Columbus is, because Santo Domingo and Seville are competing for it. What I can say as a historian is that there is such an amount of evidence in favor of a Genoese origin that to go and try to support something else in such a way is a procedure that baffles me. I stand by what I know and what many know: the Genoese origin of this man cannot be disputed."

It is not the first time: over the years he has been Portuguese, Polish, from Piacenza...

"It's not just about history, this character is a myth, so everyone wants to own it, they want the origin to be attributed to them and not to others. Columbus changed the world, the sense of space and time, because the year 1492 became the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era.

Even in Liguria itself there is a historical dispute between Genoa, Savona and Cogoleto. In your years of research and study, what have you discovered?

“The family actually lived in Savona and their relationship with the Savona popes is very strong. But this does not mean that it is an affiliation in the sense of origin".

However, they compared the remains to DNA samples from known family members, including his son.

"This only proves that Columbus is the father and he is his son."

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Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain, in 1506, but wanted to be buried on the island of Hispaniola that is now shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti. His remains were taken there in 1542, then moved to Cuba in 1795 and then to Seville in 1898.


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