La trama Colón

The epic of the discovery of America and the life of Christopher Columbus have come down to us, for the most part through official documents or written by the sailor himself and by his son Hernando, it goes without saying that both the official chronicles and the biographies present not a few parts that have been deliberately silenced. A brief analysis of the chronicles of Bartolomé de las Casas or the writings of Garcilaso de la Vega reveals data as surprising as the fact that Columbus already had reliable evidence that the Earth was round and that there were territories beyond the Atlantic Ocean. The Columbus plot listens to these texts to reveal to us that the trip of the Great Admiral was made on a known cartography and that the purpose of the expedition was to grant world commercial hegemony to Spain and Portugal. There are numerous documents attesting that ancient Chinese, Viking, and even Roman civilizations established trade connections with Native Americans; There are testimonies of the sphericity of the Earth since the 3rd century, when Eratosthenes calculated the diameter of the Earth; also in the S. X Al Maqdisi describes the Earth with 360 degrees of longitude and 180 degrees of latitude. Columbus knew this data and handled various cartographies that corroborated it, also in the islands of Madeira he discovered objects thrown by the sea to the coast -carved wood and even a boat with some corpses dressed in strange ways-. He knew of the existence of a not-so-new New World, so through the mediation of Fray Juan Pérez and Fray Antonio de Marchena he obtained the financing of his trip in which the Catholic Monarchs had little to do and the great Sephardic merchants had much to do, the Jewish origin of Columbus and the participation of more than thirty Jews in the expedition may indicate that the objective was to obtain a land in which the Jews could avoid the persecution of the Catholic Monarchs. Antonio Las Heras bases this thesis on this rigorous historical work. A book that shows that the voyage of Columbus is the path chosen for the public revelation of the secret data that since ancient times was in the hands of the royalty of the great merchants and the main captains.