EPITAPHS OF EMINENT MEN.
Christopher Columbus died at Valladolid, May 20, 1506, æt. 70. In 1513 his body was taken to Seville, on the Guadalquivir, and there deposited in the family vault of the Dukes of Alcala, in the Cathedral. Upon a tablet was inscribed, in Castilian, this meagre couplet, which is still legible:—
A Castilla y Arragon
Otro mondo dio Colon.[[23]]
[To Castile and Aragon
Columbus gave another world.]
In 1536, the remains of the great navigator were conveyed to St. Domingo and deposited in the Cathedral, where they continued until a recent period, when they were finally disinterred, and removed to Havana. The inscription on the tablet in the Cathedral of St. Domingo, now obliterated, was as follows:—
Hic locus abscondit præclari membra Columbi
Cujus nomen ad astra volat.
Non satis unus erat sibi mundus notus, at orbem