Was
Columbus Polish?
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 14, 2013, AT 5:00PM
THE
SECRET IDENTITY OF COLUMBUS: PEASANT TO VICEROY IN 33 DAYS
Manuel
Rosa will be presenting a lecture at The Kosciuszko Foundation
de-shrouding the myth surrounding the man who discovered America.
The
event, an extension of the Kosciuszko Foundation's partnership with Early Music
Foundation's New York Early Music Celebration 2013: Pro Musica Polonica, is
sure to raise thought-provoking inquiries into our assumed knowledge of
Christopher Columbus, the man!
In THE
SECRET IDENTITY OF COLUMBUS: PEASANT TO VICEROY IN 33 DAYS Rosa sets out
to prove that Columbus' history has never been examined or questioned, and is
in fact misleading at best. Mr. Rosa's 22 year adventurous investigation
involved the discovery of unknown facts regarding historical documents, the
information that the supposedly Italian Columbus rarely even used the language
in his correspondences, and the sheer impossibility of a peasant Columbus being
able to marry into nobility and carry out his quest. In short, Columbus was no
simple wool-weaver's son.
His
lectures, presented at universities, schools and organizations in Portugal,
Spain, Poland, Switzerland, and USA, are succeeding in convincing attendees
that the history of Columbus that we knew contained little truth and his books
have become the standard by which Columbus biographies are being
judged. Mr. Rosa was also the only Portuguese historian involved with DNA
studies of Columbus' bones at the University of Granada.
Mr. Rosa
will be selling limited quantities of his book, published in Polish:
"KOLUMB. Historia Nieznana" and is due to release his
book, KOLUMBAS. ATSKLEISTA ISTORIJA in Lithuania (February 2014).
The
lecture will be held at the KF house on October 14th, to coincide with Columbus
Day.
