Note 354 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

The claims of Savona have been urged the most persistently. The Admiral’s father, it seems to be admitted, removed to Savona before 1469, and lived there some time; and it is found that members of the Colombo family, even a Cristoforo Colombo, is found there in 1472; but it is at the same time claimed that this Cristoforo signed himself as of Genoa. The chief advocate is Belloro, in the Corres. Astron. Géograph. du Baron de Zach, vol. xi., whose argument is epitomized by Irving, app. v. Cf. Giovanni Tommaso Belloro, Notizie d’atti esistenti nel publico archivio de’ notaj di Savona, concernenti la famiglia di Cristoforo Colombo, Torino, 1810, reprinted by Spotorno at Genoa in 1821. Sabin (vol. ii. no. 4,565), corrects errors of Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 68. Other claims for these Genoese towns are brought forward, for which see Harrisse, Notes on Columbus; J. R. Bartlett, in Historical Magazine, February, 1868, p. 100; Felice Isnardi’s Dissertazione, 1838, and Nuovi documenti, 1840, etc. Caleb Cushing in his Reminiscences of Spain, i. 292 (Boston, 1833), gave considerable attention to the question of Columbus’ nativity.