The discovery of the North and South American continents by Europeans occurred no more than 600 years ago but the record of just exactly what happened, and who did what is deeply shrouded in faded national and international propaganda.
A couple of Italians seem to have helped in creating the maze.
The continents are named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci who supposedly made numerous trips to the Americas from 1497 to 1504. The story is that Vespucci explored from North American south to the Falkland Islands and helped European map-makers define the newly discovered continents. Apparently the map makers were not aware of the exploits of Columbus and named the new land the Americas, after Vespucci.
School books say Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, five years before Vespucci. But this may not be true, according Ruggero Marino, Italian historian.
Marino says the late Alessandro Bausani, professor of Islamic studies at University of Venice, discovered evidence in an early 16th Century Ottoman map that Columbus went to America on a secret mission for the Pope in 1485.
He claims the Columbus story as told in contemporary textbooks is filled with misinformation generated by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.
Christopher Columbus, the last Templar (Sperling & Kupfer, 2005)
Christopher Columbus, the last Templar (Destiny books and Inner Traditions International, 2007)
The Man that Surpassed the Boundaries of the World: Travels and Life of Christopher Columbus, the Hero that should have been made Saint (Sperling & Kupfer, 2010)
Review and critical commentary by Vincenzo Piazza, Ph.D.
INTRODUCTION
In his texts, Ruggero Marino invites us to rethink the image that has been transmitted to future generations regarding Christopher Columbus. In these books, his tenacious anti-conformist historical research pushes us beyond any preexisting boundary, giving to us a passionate narrative that “vanquishes,” one by one, all those myths that have been constructed regarding the Genoese admiral. Starting with the “great lie”, the one that still today is present in all history books, by which he arrives in the New World by error, in his attempt to circumnavigate the world and reach the extreme orient; which, at any rate, would have remained the goal of his successive explorations.
Chi era Cristoforo Colombo? Da dieci anni inseguiamo la sua storia su percorsi completamente diversi da quelli imposti dalla tradizione.
La scoperta dell'America è un evento che ha nel suo artefice un simbolo scelto per impersonare in terra lo Spirito Santo, in un disegno che ha radici antiche e sinora mai svelate. Che ruolo ebbe in quest'impresa Innocenzo VIII, il papa tradito? Fu Colombo un erede di conoscenze esoteriche?
Il padre di papa Innocenzo VIII, il papa di Cristoforo Colombo, che finanziò la spedizione del 1492 si chiamava Aharon, Aronne e Abramo. Un nome decisamente ebreo: era nato a Rodi, l’isola dei cavalieri. La somiglianza anche in questo caso con il navigatore, ritratto da vecchio dal Burruguete, è impressionante. A conferma di un sangue comune in linea diretta. Colombo al nord equivale all’esposito del sud: figlio di padre ignoto, figlio della colomba dello spirito santo. Il pontefice Giovanni Battista Cybo aveva due figli riconosciuti e diversi illegittimi. Alle foto alleghiamo una biografia di Aronne. Da prendersi in parte con beneficio d’inventario data la difficoltà di avere notizie certe per quei tempi.
