1st...He was NOT Italian (anthropological study of bones) 2nd...He was NOT a comnoner...he was a nobleman (through handwriting analysis) 3rd...He was probably from Barcelona (through handwriting analysis)
Conculsion...Columbus hid his origins because he was from Catalonia and might have been a mercenary against Ferdinand & Isabella 15 years before they financed his first journey to pillage the new world.
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