Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America

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Christopher Columbus: Letter to RaphaelSanxis on the Discovery of America
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Abstract

Letter of Christopher Columbus, to whom our age owes much, concerning the islands recently discovered in the Indian sea. For the search of which, eight months before, he was sent under the auspices and at the cost of the most invincible Ferdinand, king of Spain. Addressed to the magnificent lord Raphael Sanxis, treasurer of the same most illustrious king, and which the noble and learned man Leander de Cosco has translated from the Spanish language into Latin, on the third of the kalends of May 4, 1493, the first year of the pontificate of Alexander the Sixth.

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