Doubts about 1492 as the year of discovery of America

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Time.news – But when was America really discovered? Exactly 530 years after the event, doubts still exist. To refute that the discovery took place in 1492 is Ruggero Marino, journalist, scholar and writer who for decades has dedicated his life to Christopher Columbus, with many books and a dedicated site, according to which, moreover, that of the Genoese navigator who led to the discovery it was neither the only nor the first trip. Indeed, it had been there before 1942.

Marino in an interview with Focus Storia magazine attributes this belief to the discovery of a book in an antiquarian bookshop: “A book printed in Venice in 1507 came into my hands, of which there are only 17 copies“. According to Ruggero Marino, this volume entitled ‘Chronica of the lives of’ pontiffs and Roman emperors’ and attributed to a pseudo Petrarch speaks of Christopher Columbus’s journey to the New Indies, “but it is done in the life of Pope Innocent VIII, while not there is no mention of Columbus in the biography of Pope Alexander VI. But Innocent VIII – born Giovanni Battista Cybo, Genoese – died on 25 July 1492, just before Columbus set sail from Palos on 3 August and then on 12 October ‘discovered’ America under the Spanish pontiff Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia. “.

But Borgia is sometimes ignored in the stories about this historical event, “whose credit is attributed to the Spanish kings Isabella and Ferdinando. If the ancient book were right, the discovery of America should therefore be brought forward by at least a few months”, Says the journalist.

The point is that there have always been hesitations about the exact year of the discovery of America, so much so that Marino excludes that there may be any distractions or errors in this regard, because “if it were an isolated case, yes, but it is not” . In fact, the scholar of Christopher Columbus narrates that “ci are other testimonies that coincide but are ignored by the official historiography. The most striking is there for all to see. In San Pietro there is the tomb of Pope Innocent VIII, coincidentally the only one saved from the old Constantinian basilica and transferred to the new one. A singular homage for a pope struck by damnatio memoriae orchestrated by Borgia, his successor. On the tomb there is a rather clear plaque which, referring to Pope Innocent, states: ‘Novi orbis di lui aevo inventi gloria’ (‘In the time of his pontificate, the glory of the discovery of the New World’).

His pontificate, not that of his successor ”, explains Marino who says that the clues are not only these but there are others that indicate that the year is not 1942, listing them.

According to recent hypotheses, Columbus’s was not the first and only trip

But when asked if America was discovered before 1492 and by whom, Ruggero Merino explains: “We know that several peoples arrived in America before Columbus, but this matters little. It counts who by reporting news of that discovery changed the world. And this is undoubtedly Christopher Columbus. Only that of 1492 was not his first trip, but only the ‘official’ one. Many historians are amazed that Columbus has guessed everything at the first shot: he starts in the right time with a calm ocean, he guesses the currents, he knows the winds and the route that is not direct but requires a great turn, the great ‘volta’. He goes straight to the goal without a hitch. The reason is that before he had already studied everything with one or two trips and he knew what awaited him ”.

As for the date and the difference of only a few months with the official date of 1492, the journalist-historian-scholar states: “But perhaps it needs to be changed. But what matters most is who promoted the discovery of America. Current history attributes the credit to Spain, but it was an Italian pope, Innocent VIII, who found capital with the bull of a crusade and sums of Genoese and Florentines to finance the expedition. An Italian discovery, regardless of Columbus’s homeland. It is no coincidence that the first gold of the new continent is found in some Italian churches ”. Certainties collapse, however non-certainties. Another small but significant case of revision if we don’t want to call it “revisionism”.

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