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The Secret Identity of Columbus: Peasant to Viceroy in 33 Days |
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| Category: | Library Services, Info. Res. & Tech. | |
| Date & Time: |
Thursday , 10/25/2012 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM |
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| Location: | Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives | |
| Admission: | Free! | |
| Contact: |
Sonia Pacheco spacheco@umassd.edu 508-999-8695 |
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| Description: | “Will Christopher Columbus's picture soon adorn the walls of many Lithuanian-American, Polish-American, and Portuguese-American institutions as well as private homes of people of this background?” questioned the organizers of a similar talk held last month at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago. Historian Manuel Rosa’s research suggests that it should. During his presentation, he will show historical evidence indicating that the man credited with discovering America was not the son of a humble weaver from Genoa, but rather a nobleman of Portuguese birth fathered by the exiled Polish King Wladislaw III, a member of the the Lithuanian Jagiellonian Dynasty. | |
