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Christopher Columbus In Fiction
Christopher Columbus (; Ligurian: ''Cristoffa Corombo''; Italian: ''Cristoforo Colombo''; Spanish: ''Cristóbal Colón''; before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. He has been represented in many fictional and semi-fictional works, including plays, operas, films and TV, as well as literary works. Pre-20th century *1592 – Lope de Vega, '' El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón''. *1690 – Alessandro Scarlatti ''Il Colombo ovvera L'India scoperta'' *1828 – ''A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus'', a biographical fiction written by Washington Irving. *1892 – ''Cristoforo Colombo'', an Italian opera by Alberto Franchetti 1900–1950 *1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary'' is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as ''The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition''. Edited by Editor-in-chief Jess Stein, it contained 315,000 entries in 2256 pages, as well as 2400 illustrations. The CD-ROM version in 1994 also included 120,000 spoken pronunciations. History The Random House publishing company entered the reference book market after World War II. They acquired rights to the ''Century Dictionary'' and the ''Dictionary of American English'', both out of print. Their first dictionary was Clarence Barnhart's ''American College Dictionary'', published in 1947, and based primarily on ''The New Century Dictionary'', an abridgment of the ''Century''. In the late 1950s, it was decided to publish an expansion of the ''American College Dictionary'', which had been modestly updated with each reprinting since its publication. Under editors Jess Stein and Laurence Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A History Of The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus
''A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus'' is a fictional biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828. It was published in four volumes in Britain and in three volumes in the United States. The work was the most popular treatment of Columbus in the English-speaking world until the publication of Samuel Eliot Morison's biography ''Admiral of the Ocean Sea'' in 1942. It is one of the first examples of American historical fiction and one of several attempts at nationalistic myth-making undertaken by American writers and poets of the 19th century.Hazlett, John D. "Literary Nationalism and Ambivalence in Washington Irving's ''The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus''". ''American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography'' 55.4 (1983): 560-575. It also helped to perpetuate the myth of the flat Earth. Writing Irving was invited to Madrid to translate Spanish-language source material on Columbus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Columbus (1922 Film)
Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was an explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and European colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America. The name ''Christopher Columbus'' is the anglicisation of the Latin . Growing up on the coast of what is now northwestern Italy (Liguria), he went to sea at a young age and travelled widely, as far north as the British Isles and as far south as what is now Ghana. He married Portuguese noblewoman Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, who bore a son Diego, and was based in Lisbon for several years. He late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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