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306: Columbus: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
Is There Something Shevallric About the World of Books?
In 1480s, he becomes a book dealer in Lisbon. He's married at Portuguese woman Felipe. She is technically a noble woman because her father had been awarded this kind of baron remote island out in the Atlantic. This seems of very, also kind of very, very important insight into Columbus's character but also the mood of the time. There is something shevallric about these explorations going out into the sea. And Columbus as a bookseller presumably would have been very fired by that.
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