hm....我在讀的一本書中間提到的
十大理由為何哥倫布也是加泰郎喔
Michener, James A. "Iberia, Spanish Travels and Reflections." p.658
這是一個巴塞隆納書店老闆跟作者"哥倫布是從加泰隆尼亞來的"的十大原因:
"First, Even the standard biographies which claim he is Italian admit that
he came to Spain when he was already a middle-aged man, yet not once do we
even ashred of his writing to be in Italian. Second, those who claim he
was Italian nevr agree as to where he was born. Third, some time ago I was
invited to address a learned society in the United States, Cleveland I think
it was, and the chairman, knowing my research, took me aside and said, 'Senor
Porter, we're proud to have you with us, but I must insist that in your speech
you make no mention of the fact that Colon was not Italian. All of us who are
scholars know that to be a fact, but it would be suicide to say so in this
country. The Italian politicians are too strong and they'd cut off our funds.'
So in what you like to call the freest country in the world, the truth was
muzzled. Fourth, it was a Jew of Barcelona, Luis de Santangel, who put up the
money to finance Colon's trip of discovery, and we in this city believe he did
so because of the reasons which I will develop as we go along. Fifth, it seems
to me significant that wen Colon returned to Spain he reported not to Sevilla
or Madrid but to Barcelona." Here I said that this could have been because
Fernando and Isabel were here at the time, but he was already into his sixth
point. "When Colon reached this city he handed Luis de Santangel, a letter of
appreciation for his money, and it was written in Catalan. Seventh, no existe
in todo el mundo ninguna carta firmada Colombo (there does not exist in the
entire world one letter signed Colombo) but only those signed Colon, which is
Catalan for pigeon; in other words, he never wrote in Italian or signed his
name that way, but he did write in Catalan and he used a catalan signature.
Eighth, the first missionary to accompany Colon to the New World was a Catalan,
Bernard Boyl. Ninth, the foremost soldier to accompany him was also a catalan,
Pere Margarit. Tenth, none of his portraits look Italian, but they do look
Catalan. "
Triumphantly Senor Porter threw his arms wide, rose from his desk and ran
to stand over me. "It seems completely clear to me that Cristobal Colon was a
Catalan."
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只是給有興趣的人看一下
不過我覺得第八點跟第九點也許作者把兩者名字搞錯了
Pere在Catalan是Father的意思, 所以Pere Margarit才是第一個去新大陸的傳教士, 而
Bernard Boyl 才是第一個護送他的士兵.
上次本來版聚有帶一些東西要跟大家分享的
包括跟巴塞隆納有關的書:專門介紹巴塞隆納這城市跟人民性格的書
以巴塞隆納足球俱樂部為背景寫的小說
還有一堆報紙
不過實在是版聚太火熱 我覺得拿出來有點會冷掉
所以把這些留到下一次囉
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