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The Portuguese Columbus: Secret Agent of King John II.

1993; Duke University Press; Volume: 73; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2517718

1527-1900

David Henige, Mascarenhas Barreto,

Literary and Philosophical Studies

Part 1: the Cathars the Inquisition the Portuguese Jews the peninsular crusades and the templars the pre-Columbian discoveries the diplomatic treaties of King John II. Part 2 The hermetism of Christopher Columbus: Columbian documentation the language of the Admiral of the Indies the multiplicity of Foreign Columbuses. Part 3 Empirical and scientific navigation: Portuguese nautical cryptography the enigma of Columbus' voyages the problem of the legendary Thule more theses on the discovery of America the mystery of the seven cities. Part 4 Biographic Machiavellianism: enigmatic lineage the fabric of a weaver's descent the strategem fo deceit. Part 5 Christopher Columbus revealed: dispersing the mist the prophecy of the Sibyl astrology and alchemy the labyrinth of the Cabala on the other side of the mirror from light to darkness. Part 6 Check and mate: after the heat of the battle a house on Madeira and a convent in Lisbon the genealogical web terra rubra and la rabida huntsmen and admirals stopovers at Azores, Portugal and Arzila. Part 7 On the trail of the last incognitos: the protectors of the admiral adulterers and adulterators the damsel of Cordoba distortions corrected the heraldic secret a question of physionomy the Brothers and the Cousins gambit. Appendix 1: The Hebraic letters/numbers and their meaning. Appendix 2: Triangles and hemispheres and its Latin words.