The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

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whu after Columbus had defafich iron,
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Army IN the Vega ~ Granada, S'nt tnea.
SINGERS 70 recall him and uHdertooh the
cU-l ~ The enterprise on l@half ~ the crown
~ CASTLE, expressing n willingness 70 paw"
her own jewels FOR the pnrpo~r. " The funds
In the treasury should prove Inadequate.
The terms upon which Columbus insisted.
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and the agreement, which was Higncd on
April ~, iiV2, II sill In existence. II II AN
interesting fact that the funds needed to
provide thrce small vessels. manned with
ninety sailors and provisioned for n year,
were provided 10y a mar Of Jewish descent.
Luis dc SantAngsl, TREASURER Of CASTLE. II
Ia not wonderful that Queen ISABELLA or
anybody else at the Spanish court should
have failed 70 appreciate the importance
OF the discovery made by Columbus, Tor
he died without o~omprehending II himself,
believing that he had only arrived at
the eastern coast Of Asia. Not until the
oircumna vigation OF the globe had been
effected by the expedition which bears the
name Of Magellan could the size OF the
earth BE- computed With an approach to
correctness. II was owing, Of course, to
Columbus's mistaken assumption that Cuba
was part of the mainland Of India that the
natives Of the New World have been called
Indians.
Whom the long Moorish wa was at an
end the Spanish sovereigns were at leisure
to attend to the internal affairs OF their
kingdoms and to prosecute plans for the
extension OF their dominions in Europe.
BY a treaty concluded at Barcelona in 1893
Fernando regained the old provinces Of Ara
gon-Roussillon and Cerdagne which lie
on the northeastern slope of the Pyrenees,
but which had been mortgaged by his
father to the King Of France. Rather
more than two years later, Gonsalro OF
Cordova, at the head Of 5000 picked men.
landed in Calabria, where he was to gain
the title Of "the Great Captain" and in
hicted a series Of defeats Upon the French,
after which he proceeded to the States OF
the Church and delivered Ostia the seaport
Of Rome, which had become a nest OF
brigands. There now opened before King
Fernando an immense horizon Of aggran-
dizement. II Aragon could but extend its
grasp from Sicily along north Africa to
Syria and along the Adriatic and Egean
toward C~onstantinople it's ancient claim
to the Empire of the East might become a
practical and solid one. The Genoese and
yenetians, overawed by the dominant sea
power Of the Aragonese, would decay,
and Fernando's descendants might rule
unohallenged from the Pillars Of Hercules
to the Golden Horn. The plan was a splen-
did one, and through a long life Ferpando's
crafty brain labored for at least it's partial
fulflment; but death and disaster set in,
and the dream eventually brought a curse.
instead Of q blessing, on the posterity of
the plotter.
A chapter Of the book before us is devoted
to the marriages which were brought about
for the children Of Fernando and Isabella,
and of which one made valuable additions
to the dominions inherited by their grand
son, the Emperor Charles V. The daughter
who was to figure in English history was
originally nance Catalina, and did not
receive the name Of Katharine Of Aragon
until May, 1901 when, in the palace OF
Granada, she took leave Of her mother,
whom she was never to see again, and
began her long journey to England, where
she was to join her b%etrothed, Arthur Prince
Of Wales, eldest son Of Henry VII. On
landing in Plymouth, she met with a very
cordial reception. for the alliance was ex-
tremely popular; it is, indeed. a fact that
throughout the changing fortunes Of her
life "all England loved her to the end
At the time of the marriage Katharine
not yet is, and Prince Arthur was
ten months younger. 1t is we'll Known
that the young husband died OF the plague
scarcely six months after the nuptials,
and upon the Qeatn Oh EllIdDeln vi 10TH,
the queen of Henry VII, which occurred
soon afterward, it was reported that King
Henry was inclined to marry the widowed
Princess Katharine himself, not wishing
to return her dowry Of 200 600 crowns.
In 1903. however, a treaty of marriage was
arranged between the girl, now II, and the
young Prince Henry, who was five years
n 1t was, OF course, against the
canon law for Katharine to marry the
brother Of her deceased husband without a
papal dispensation, and her mother, Isabella
of CASTLE, was so much troubled about the
matter that a papal brief legalizing her
daughters second marriage was procured,
antedated, and brought to Isabella's death
bed, to give her final satisfaction on the
subject.
Although Isabella felt much anxiety until
the status of Katharine was defined by a
papal dispensation, the most bitter OF the
sorrows by which her closing years were
darkened was caused by the fate of her
second daughter, Juana, who had been
married to the Archduke Philip, Duke Of
Burgundy, Count of Flanders and heir to
the empire. From the first this maria ge
had not been a happy one. Juana was
wilful and obstinate and could not control
~ .oo,;onota ION lousv which her husbo pJ,o