THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library By Edward Wilson-Lee Hernando Coln was the illegitimate second son of Cristbal Coln (known to us as Christopher Columbus). He was educated in royal households; accompanied his father on a disastrous voyage to Central America; represented his philandering half brother, Diego, in a paternity lawsuit at the Vatican; began a geographic survey of Spain; debated the Portuguese on the circumference of the earth; and drafted a Latin dictionary so detailed he was forced to stop, a...
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