The puzzling hero. Studies on Christopher Columbus and the culture of his age

Foreword by Franco Salvatori·Part One. The Stages of the Discovery1.Seeking, Finding and Discovering. The Stages of the Discovery·Part Two. Columbus' Voyages and Their Consequences1.Christopher Columbus and the “Encounter”2.New data on Columbus' Second Voyage. Arrival at the Lesser Antilles and Landing at Guadeloupe·Part Three. The Documents1.Columbus' Postilla B 858c and Its Chronological Value2.Regarding the So-called “Columbus' Map”3.New and Old Documents Relating to Columbus·Part four. Columbus' Culture1.Columbus and the Problem of the Longitudes2.Columbus' Culture·Part Five. From Asia to a New World1.Columbus' Asia2.Columbus' Otro Mundo. The Genesis of a Geographical Concept·Part Six. Columbus and Genoa1.Genoa and Columbus2.Columbus' Nautical Culture·Part Seven. Columbus and the Historiography of His Age1.Cassiterides, Gorgades, Hesperides after the Discovery of America2.Columbus, Las Casas and Portuguese Voyages·Part Eight. Columbus, Martellus and the Fantasy of Some Scholars1.The Cartographic Works of Henricus Martellus and the “Pre-discovery” of America2.Henricus Martellus' Map in the Yale University Library and the Columbus BrothersBibliography