Old And New Lights On Columbus With Observations On Controverted Points And Cri
Old And New Lights On Columbus With Observations On Controverted Points And Cri
Richard Henry Clarke
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Ii. , p. 217. 466 OLD AND NEW LIGHTS able letter addressed by the admiral to them, in which he ear- nestly and enthusiastically appealed to them not to reject his- proposals, and assuring them of the same ultimate success that had attested the truth and practicability of his proposals for the discovery of the new world. While preparing this unique and characteristic volume, Colum- bus was living in retirement and poverty, unable to appear in public for want of means to sustain his rank, scarcel...y able to provide a scanty livelihood or clothing, and, to his own sincere regret and mortification, unable to contribute to the Church and to the expenses of divine worship a blanca, smallest of Span- ish coins. Not having received his just remittances from His- paniola, he was without money or credit. It is well known that in his days of prosperity his charities had been unbounded. Not only had he cared for his aged and impoverished father at Genoa, but he cared for the household of Donna Beatrix Enriquez at Cordova, had assisted his brothers, and, as the Count de Lorgues suggests, not from historical data, but from the abundance of his admiration, he must have given generously to hospitals and other charities, and discharged in the most substantial manner the debt of gratitude he always entertained toward the Francis- can convent of La Rabida.
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