Christopher Columbus beyond centuries of myth: The explorer wasn’t a revolutionary thinker or a pauper in his final days

Christopher Columbus was Spanish. He was also English, French, Portuguese, Croatian, Greek, and even Swiss. Over the centuries, researchers and writers have traced his birth to more than a dozen lands. Esteban Mira Caballos, a doctor in American History from the University of Seville, refutes all these hypotheses, maintaining, “indisputably, because the sources and evidence are overwhelming,” that the navigator was Genoese. The rest, he insists, are nothing more than “fables shaped by individual interests, often fueled by nationalist sentiments, without providing scientific evidence.”

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