[342] Annotationes ad Tacitum.
[343] These various later arguments are epitomized in Ruge, Das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen, p. 219.
[344] Charles Malloy’s Treatise of Affairs Maritime, 3d ed., London, 1682; Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 69.
[345] Documentary proof, as it was called, has been printed in the Revue de Paris, where (August, 1841) it is said that the certificate of Columbus’ marriage has been discovered in Corsica. Cf. Margry, Navigations Françaises, p. 357. The views of the Abbé Martin Casanova, that Columbus was born in Calvi in Corsica, and the act of the French President of Aug. 6, 1883, approving of the erection of a monument to Columbus in that town, have been since reviewed by Harrisse in the Revue critique (18 Juin, 1883), who repeats the arguments for a belief in Genoa as the birthplace, in a paper, “Christophe Colomb et la Corse,” which has since been printed separately.
[346] Domingo de Valtanas, Compendio de cosas notables de España, Seville, 1550; Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 183.
[347] The claim is for Pradello, a village neighboring to Placentia. Cf. Campi, Historia ecclesiastica di Piacenza,, Piacenza, 1651-1662, which contains a “discorso historico circa la nascita di Colombo,” etc.; Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 67; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 711.
[348] Napione, in Mémoires de l’Académie de Turin (1805), xii. 116, and (1823) xxvii. 73,—the first part being printed separately at Florence, in 1808, as Della Patria di Colombo, while he printed, in 1809, Del primo scopritore del continente del nuovo mondo. In the same year J. D. Lanjuinais published at Paris, in reference to Napione, his Christophe Colomb, ou notice d’un livre Italien concernant cet illustre navigateur. Cf. the same author’s Etudes (Paris, 1823), for a sketch of Columbus, pp. 71-94; Dissertazioni di Francesco Cancellieri sopra Colombo, Rome, 1809; and Vicenzio Conti’s historical account of Montferrat. In 1853 Luigi Colombo, a prelate of the Roman Church, who claimed descent from an uncle of the Admiral, renewed the claim in his Patria e biografia del grande ammiraglio D. Cristoforo Colombo de’ conti e signori di Cuccaro, Roma, 1853. Cf. Notes on Columbus, p. 73.
[349] Ragionamento nel quale si confirma l’opinione generale intorno al patria di Cristoforo Colombo, in vol. iii. of the Transactions of the Society.
[350] A view of the alleged house and chamber in which the birth took place is given in Harpers’ Monthly, vol. liv., December, 1876.
[351] In his Clarorum Ligurum elogia, where the Genoese were taunted for neglecting the fame of Columbus.