Автор: Рафаэль САБАТИНИ. КОЛУМБ

Рафаэль Сабатини (1875–1950) — английский писатель итальянского происхождения

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Christopher Columbus at the gates of the monastery of Santa Maria de la Rabida with his son Diego,

  Benet Mercadé i Fàbrega, in Spanish: Benito Mercadé y Fábregas (1821 – 10 December 1897) was a Catalan painter of portraits and historical scenes.
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 Как вас зовут, сеньор?   — Колон. Кристобаль Колон.

The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicisation of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. 
His name in Ligurian is Cristoffa Corombo, 
in Italian Cristoforo Colombo,
 in Spanish Cristóbal Colón, and 
in Portuguese, Cristóvão Colombo.[5] 
He was born before 31 October 1451 in the territory of the Republic of Genoa (now part of modern Italy)

пристальный взгляд приора прошёлся по семитским чертам лица путника. Такая фамилия встречалась у новых христиан, а приор мог привести не один случай, когда Святая палата отправляла их на костёр за следование еврейской религии.

Under the Mongol Empire's hegemony over Asia (the Pax Mongolica, or Mongol peace), Europeans had long enjoyed a safe land passage, the Silk Road, to the Indies (then construed roughly as all of south and east Asia) and China, which were sources of valuable goods such as spices and silk. With the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the land route to Asia became much more difficult and dangerous. Portuguese navigators tried to find a sea way to Asia. (отсюда )

The return of Columbus in Spain, 1493 Artist Ricardo Balaca (1844–1880) Date 1874