New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-19
COLUMB USS NATIVE PLACE.
GENOA OR CALvIi AN ITALIAN OR COR
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recent categram from Madrid stated mat
rettion signed by 500 persons including archbShops
bishops and patrarchs, has been sent to the POPE
asking him TO honor the of Christopher Columbus
with the title of Venei able" This reminds one VI
the efforts made by some parties, mainly unuer 'i'
guidance of Mr. Lorey de Forgues. as clerical dog
rapher OF Columbus, 10 have him canonized by INC
Catholic Church.
Where was Columbus born, and where is his grave
These are questions which have not yet been saus'
factorily answered. a very discussion sprahs
up some two years ago between the newspapers VI
Cuba and those Of the Dominican Republic, and dflS
many months the former asserted that columbus .
remains were at Havana while the latter were posi-
tive they were at the city Of Santo Domingo
Similar discussions have always been rife concerning
the birthplace Of the great navigator, who' tnoue"
not seriously claimed, like Homer, their son py
seven cities, constantly claimed with energy oon
by Genoa in Italy, and Cavi, in Corsica The lateS'
argument In that discussion, which the Approaching
anniversary date of 1892 renders highly interesting
has been launched forth in book published DS ni.
Pcrctti, the cmate of a Catholic church at CaNl VI
course. he claims Christopher Columbus for ciuAon
of that seaport the northwestern coast OF Coscs'
right opposite Genoa. which possessed Corsica during
the Middle Ages and the following centuries uh'i'
176s Just one year previous to the birth OF BONA
parte who was near being an ltailah iesdiiS q"
he really was one in his traits and characteI1sucs
Abbot Pcretti truthfully recalls that no authcntl-
rated document is in existence proving that
Columbus born at Genoa. The three ooI "P"o oi
mis- contemporaries, Gallo, Guistiniam and foehe'',
msrely des cnate him as a Cenoese' But this cOuld
apply Just as well TO a native of Calvi' ior inc
Genoa Senate had granted 10 that buwaFh oil us Jun"
lnation In Corsica the special privilege theh 0"i'
rty's right: that the Calvi people "eio o"'ioU
fGenoese citizens The municipality used on inc
legal and official paper the very seal OF Genoa WIN
tafiS
fact thai ZEE certificate of birth of Columbus mas never
been proonvee and that will, alleged to have oec
written by HIM, mentioned only Ill Io'0'
seventy-two years after his death IL pears Hc'n''
date nor Signature with the exception OF these "ous'
81 the Admiral Tel Almirante, which are not 10 10
found I'm any authenticated letter document lett py
the discoverer.
Moreover. this alleged will remained quite unknown
10 the son OF Columbus who is put down as lesa'co
10 the tune of 100000 pasetaS THIS sons Don
Fernando I'm his fathers biography, plousy "Il''o"
by him, names Genoa and Ncrvi as claiming u NC
the birthplace of Columbus but he does not pass any
Judgment upon these claims. in his own WILL ua'cu
July IL, 1889 Don Fernando calls hmseh hJouo
Don Crstobal Coon Cinoves,' son OF Don christopher
Columbus Genoese; which appellation could be ap-
piled as well TO native OF Calvi, as shown ABOVE
Now, respecting the local traditions pointing 10
Calvi as the native place of Columbus AotOO feietu
discovers one of them in poetcal composition u 'he
sixteenth century. That manuscript i0uhu dniust 80
the papers preserved by Cosican FANNY oI ono VI
the villages around Calvi, aud declared as ueis q
genuine document by a member OF the PARIS ACADEMY
of Inscriptions who scrutinzed it, formally asserts
that the discovercr born at Cavl, Inc sdlpe as
sertion was made by Father DiongIo, very learned
man. according TO the testimony OF his contemporaries
of the eighteenth century. Many other evidences too
numerous 10 be recalled here, are considered as quie
convincing by the inhabitants OF Calvi who placed Oh
the Both of July. 1856 a memorial piaque IPon |"
house of Colombost formerly Doi tL4-sl: g IDT9%u7
St Columbus's father weaver, where ta9iuOh
saws the great navigator into the world More.
Cyer, there was at Cavi family by the name Of
Colombo, whose traces be followed in the parish
regstcrs from the sixteenth % the eighteenth cen
tnTies II is worth noticing. also that according 70
The narrative made by Don Fernando OF me discovery
Of America there on board the h0ulla ol Coluin
bns pack of Corscan hounds, and also a petty
good number of Corscan natives probably from CalNl
The above facts, recently published IN EUROPE 90
mt settle the disp1ted question relative TO the birth
place of Columbus but they indicate that strong
tradition j. IN existence according TO when ms Drth-
place would be the seaport of Calv in Corsica.