Monday, October 14, 2024

COLOMBO CÓDIGO SECRETOS

 Aqui deixo alguns enigmas sobre o famoso navegador don Cristóbal Colón que dá para pensar...  

O navegador não sabia escrever italiano, tentou escrever em duas notas mas cometeu tanto erros que dá para entender que não sabia o que era a lingua italiana ou genovesa .. nem sequer sabia que EU em italiano seria IO e não YO como ele escreveu... 

"...yo (eu em espanhol):


Del ambra es çierto nascere in India soto tierra, he yo ne ho fato

cavare in molti monti in la isola de Feyti vel de Ofir vel de Cipango, a

la quale habio posto nome Spagnola, y ne o trovato pieça grande como

el capo, ma no tota chiara, saluo de chiaro y parda, y otra negra.


(O âmbar, é certo, nasce na Índia na terra do mais denso matagal, e

eu lá fiz com que fosse cavado em muitos montes na ilha de Feyti [Haiti]

ou Ofir ou Cipango [Japão], à qual havia posto o nome da Espanhola,

e lá encontrei uma peça grande como uma cabeça, mas não toda clara, em vez disso clara e parda, e outra negra.)


Estas são as palavras não italianas: es çierto, tierra, yo, pieça, como, el, y, parda, otra, negra.


 Da nota acima, podemos confirmar que o almirante nem sabia escrever uma palavra  tão importante como eu em italiano, tendo optado pelo espanhol yo." --  PORTUGAL E O SEGREDO DE COLOMBO (Alma dos Livros, 2019) 


O navegador escreveu em 1493 que Portugal era "minha terra" e nunca disse que era genovês, ou que teria nascido em Génova, nunca o disse em lado nenhum.

O navegador chamava-se COLÓN em Castela e NUNCA se chamou "Colombo" - Colombo foi um nome dado a ele por terceiros. Colombo é um nome que o navegador NUNCA utilizou em lado nenhum. 

O navegador assinava o seu nome com uma sigla críptica para esconder o seu passado e às vezes metia um monograma à esquerda que parece ser um S.

Esta forma de assinar as suas cartas mostra um intento de guardar o seu passado dos olhos daqueles que não mereciam saber a verdade. Foi um sucesso total. Até hoje ninguém sabe a verdadeira identidade do navegador.


Na corte de Castela só lhe deram uma nacionalidade. Essa foi a nacionalidade portuguesa em 1487. Nesse documento estão implicados 5 pessoas, incluindo a rainha Dª Isabel de Castela:

Rumeu de Armas notes that there were five people involved in that 1487 payment,

because in addition to the almoner Pedro de Toledo his note mentions the Queen

“Your Highness ordered me in person.” He also says that Doctor [Rodrigo

Maldonado] Talavera was present and that it was Alonso de Quintanilla who paid

the Portuguese. Yet, there was still the involvement of Friar Hernando de

Talavera All five of them understood who the anonymous Portuguese was that

Pedro de Toledo referred to.


The fact that five people at the Castilian court accepted the future Viceroy to be a

Portuguese national in 1487, and simultaneously understood why he needed to remain

anonymous, makes the mystery much more complex.


Why would Queen Isabel assist this mysterious Portuguese (who was there “doing

certain things for our service,”)563 in concealing his true identity from us?564 Why would

the court later decide to refer to him only as foreigner?  (COLUMBUS versus COLÓN, 2024)


Em 1488, o rei D. João II escreve-lhe uma carta em português endereçada a "Xpovam Colon, Nosso especial amigo em Sevilha". Nessa carta o rei diz que o navegador está ao seu serviço e que será muito bem pago. Chama-lhe industrioso, engenhoso e muito necessário que venha imediatamente a Lisboa.


O navegador vai a Lisboa e reune-se com D. João II e Bartolomeu Dias revistando um mapa da descoberta do Cabo da Boa Esperança. - Porque será que D. João II queria mostrar esta descoberta ao navegador?


Em fevereiro de 1477, o navegador navegou até ao Canadá numa viagem secreta portuguesa onde teve oportunidade de medir as marés na Bay of Funny, anotando essas imensas marés de 17 metros "duas vezes por dia".


Nunca carta escrita cerca de 1500 ao reis de Castela disse que rejeitou ofertas do rei de Portugal, da Inglaterra, e de  França para guardar a empresa de descoberta só para Castela.  O navegador escreveu mais vezes sobre etas ofertas dos três reis, e numa dessas cartas diz que a rainha viu as cartas do rei de Portugal, do rei da Inglaterra e do rei de França entregues à rainha pelo doutor Villalón.

Diz que as ofertas daqueles três reis não eram pequenas nem vás!


Carta onde diz que rejeitou as ofertas de patrocínio dos reis de França, Inglaterra e Portugal (sublinhado) - Source: Archivo General de Indias, PATRONATO, 295, N.41

Na volta de regresso em março de 1493 não foi para Castela, mas sim para Lisboa onde procurou o rei D. João II e lhe mostrou as provas das terras onde chegou mentindo aos reis de Castela que a razão de parar em Lisboa fora uma tempestade. 

Escrevia ao seu irmão Bartolomé em cartas cifradas de letras desconhecidas que os Castelhanos não entendiam mostrando que o irmão Bartolomé era também muito instruído. 

Foi feito cartão de quatro frotas, liderando homens, navios, mantimentos, rotas e mapas.

Após a morte teve pintado no seu retrato dentro do Alcazar de Sevilha estas três imagens que nos dão para pensar, duas palmas(?) dentro de uma coroa, um padrão de três romãs postas em triangulo e cortadas, e uma coroa na manga. Mistérios que o pintor Alejo Fernández queria passar clandestinamente para o futuro.


E agora o enigma maior de todos. O pintor António Moro quando pintou o navegador a pedido de Margarida de Parma, filha do rei Carlos, meteu um anel de armas no seu dedo que será suposto de ser uma dica para a sua verdadeira identidade.  Fica aqui essa dica...


Ainda aqui fica a genealogia da Filipa Moniz, a dama que queriam que nós aceitássemos teria casado com um tecelão rafeiro de Génova, e agora querem que aceitemos casou com um judeu tecelão de Valência... É só tecer novelos com a história.


a busca da verdade continua aqui www.MdRosa.com











Sunday, September 29, 2024

Fraud and Forgeries Debunk the Italian Columbus History as False

 Fraud and Forgeries Debunk the Italian Columbus History as False

The Italian Columbus has been debunked and dethroned!

This new book, COLUMBUS versus COLÓNThe weaver from Italy was not the navigator from Spain, is the first English edition of a doctoral dissertation proving once and for all that the 500 year history of Christopher Columbus was false.

The reader will not find an exercise of guesses here, or rejection of the sources that do not fit, nor any unfounded deductions. Doctor Manuel Rosa demonstrated, through a systematic analysis of all the documentation, that Don Cristóbal Colón was not born in a family of Genoese weavers. 
— Professor João Paulo Oliveira e Costa

A Falsified Story

Uncovering the truth about Christopher Columbus, the putative discoverer of the Americas, is more than just an esoteric quest for knowledge of the 15th century. Dr. Rosa’s research reveals how the explorer was born a Portuguese nobleman in 1455, not an Italian weaver born in 1451. Forged documents led historians astray for centuries.

Christopher Columbus’ history was a devious labyrinth falsified by many different actors working in different centuries and for different reasons. Documents about some Cristoforo Colombo weaver from Genoa, include many forgeries, as Ulloa, Altolaguirre, Strahan and others declared.

The Contemporary Review (1937) stated that “the forgery of documents referring to Columbus has not stopped,being more intensified after his death.” Consuelo Varela described forged documents stating “the great celebration of the 400th Anniversary brought out forgers that were better experts.” Guadalupe Chocano mentions the doubts and contradictions inherent in the Genoese documents. Ezquerra Abadía observed that many Genoese documents were not authentic, saying that “with a certain abundance have appeared in the current century.” The Raccolta Colombiana was a government propaganda incentive that served the purpose of grafting a Genoese Colombo into this story, even if by fraud. It was not a search for the truth. Armando Cortesão wrote that many Genoese documents “were later discovered to be forgeries” and was astonished that such a keystone document as the Assereto had never been found in the Genoese archives until the Genoese needed to prove 1451 as the year of their Colombo’s birth. The Assereto Document is the most egregious fraud committed against academics and the historical truth in the last century. At any time, the Italian lobby could have opted for seeking truth and let the world know about their lack of documents. Instead, they chose to bluff the world with misleading documents and their manipulations succeeded in deceiving thousands of academics for over 100 years. By deceiving countless biographers and investigators, this fraud was a crime against the Humanities. We are deceived no more! What COLOMBO versus COLÓNpresents are the solid facts on which to anchor a new biography and a new and more accurate story.

33 Years of Research 

Since 1991, Dr. Manuel Rosa, PhD in Insular and Atlantic History (XV-XX Centuries), has visited archives and museums looking for the truth and published a dozen revolutionary history books in several countries, including the award-winning COLUMBUS: The Untold Story (USA 2016). This publication is admired as perhaps the best and most authoritative work ever written about the discoverer of America. It received a 5-star review from Indie Reader, won an Independent Press Award in the category of Biography: Historical, won the 2018 New York City Big Book Award and was named the Best World History Book of 2016 in the Huffington Post.

 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and Dr. Manuel Rosa did an unbelievable job as an investigative detective matching up documents from different countries to show how the world had accepted a history as being written in stone when it was actually written on shifting sands. The amount of new information in Columbus versus Colón is amazing for anyone who likes true conspiracy and mystery detective novels, except this one turns out to be a true story.

COLUMBUS versus COLÓN: The weaver from Italy was not the navigator from Spain, deals meticulously over Columbus’s name and country of origin. I’ll say the book is painstaking in trying to determine Cristoforo’s birth and lineage through an interesting theory on why Columbus’s stuck to his discovery of ‘India.’

A fantastic book. The author methodically checks off the lies, the misinformation, the forgeries, and focuses on the aspects of Don Cristóbal Colón’s life the historians have ignored or tried to explain away with ridiculous assertions.

A doctoral dissertation that is well researched, complete with details and sources. A stunning array of artifacts and data connecting the dots to a medieval conspiracy, so massive, so bold, so risky, and so well executed, that it has continued to fool the world for 500 years.

This printed edition deviates slightly from the preceding version by the addition of these last paragraphs of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in which the author sees as his prerogative to place the blame for the prevailing falsified history clearly at the feet of the Italian academics from the late 1800s and early 1900s and their supporting government entities. All of them colluded to provide false and misleading documents to the world in the hopes that the doubts surrounding theirGenoese Columbus weaver could be erased. 

At any time, the Italian lobby could have opted for seeking truth and let the world know about their lack of documents. Instead, they opted to bluff the world with misleading publications and their manipulations succeeded in deceiving thousands of academics for over 100 years. 
We are deceived no more!

On June 3, 2024, the Chief of Staff of the Portuguese Navy, Admiral Henrique Eduardo Passaláqua de Gouveia e Melo, introduced our book Columbus in the Crosswinds. The Admiral stated in its Introduction that, “this small book serves only as a gateway to discover” the big historical lie surrounding the person we commonly call Columbus.

Columbus in the Crosswinds was written at Admiral Gouveia e Melo’s request to give readers a bird’s eye view of the research that was presented in our 600-page book, Portugal e o Segredo de Colombo (Lisbon, 2019). The Admiral’s support is one of the greatest honors our work could garner and our appreciation is immeasurable.

The false Christopher Columbus history is a problem so wide-ranging that it has taken 33 years of research to get to the clarity we have reached in this Columbus versus Colón dissertation. The good news is that now there is no going back. 

Academic Support

On June 17, 2024, nearly 20 years after our first lecture there, we presented our latest evidence at the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa with the lecture Colombo Versus Colón: A Genoese Tale along with Professor João Paulo Oliveira e Costa. Professor Oliveira e Costa was chosen the advisor for our doctoral dissertation because he is one of the top historians in Portugal. Over the decades he had made certain statements in his books doubting the official Christopher Columbus story. It just didn’t make sense to him.

However, on June17, Professor Oliveira e Costa’s position regarding who the 1492 explorer was not can’t be made any clearer, as we quote here:

This was the discussion I had with Manuel Rosa, as his doctoral advisor. I believe that his doctoral dissertation is a milestone in the Portuguese historiography, but it is a limited milestone. The milestone was only in what we can say with the certainty of historians. Yes, it is what we can prove through the scientific method. History is a science, it is a human science, but it is a science with a scientific method. And, therefore, everything that I can affirm without the scientific method contradicting me… 

And therefore, my position is that there is a fact that seems to me to be indisputable. What is indisputable is that Cristóbal Colón was not a Genoese weaver. That is impossible. There is no chance. 

No matter how many other historians tell me otherwise, it is impossible (for him to have been a Genoese weaver). 

It is impossible because of one reason, above all others…, the big argument against the Genoese weaver has always centered on Filipa Moniz (his wife). The fact that Filipa Moniz was noble is already sufficient evidence of his noble birth.

Whoever he was, the explorer was a person noble enough to be named Viceroy before doing anything and then his grandson is named Duke… Duke is the top of the nobility hierarchy, one step below the crown.

And therefore, just to reiterate what Manuel Rosa has presented, Cristóbal Colón, was certainly born in Portugal, he wrote in Portuguese. He was certainly a nobleman, there is no other explanation! He is appointed Viceroy by the Queen of Castile, who knew who he was. He was also revered here in Portugal. He married here an individual of significant relevance in the social context of the second half of the 15th century.

Colón had to inevitably be a nobleman to be in this marriage.

There is one other thing, and that is for me, the key fact, it will be the title of my book that I hope to publish next year called Colón the Viceroy. And Viceroy is the key argument for me, and I don’t know how people pretend that this fact doesn’t exist.

Cristóbal Colón before setting sail, before having done anything of any relevance in any way to make himself significant. A social act, a sword fight, killing a random guy in a battle. Something like that. When he set sail, before he is sent… the promised reward he got was not the promise that King D. Afonso V had made to all those who were going to venture out into the Atlantic, which was to be Lords of the islands they discovered. Not even in a more centralizing way as King D. João II did, no longer promising the lordship as his father did, he promised only the captaincy of the discovered islands. The Queen of Spain does not promise a title of Lordship or a title of Captain. She promised him the title of Viceroy!

It is a matter of seeing who was made Viceroy in the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Has any weaver ever been captain of anything, let alone Viceroy? And therefore, we cannot create history by going against the facts of history.

We are grateful for Oliveira e Costa’s valued support, which culminates our three decades of working to convince academia that the Italian story about a Genoese weaver Christopher Columbus was a fraudulent story. 

As it now seems, the Christopher Columbus history was falsified by many different actors working in different centuries and for different reasons. We will not go into all those details in this work. What we present in COLUMBUS versus COLÓN: The weaver from Italy was not the navigator from Spain, are the solid facts on which to anchor a new biography and a new and more accurate story.

May this work speak for itself and let the story of Don Cristóbal Colón, who was never called Christopher Columbus, begin to be rewritten with more truth and less invention. If so, then all the challenges we have been put through in these last thirty-three years were worth it, and the old saying “truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water” (Cervantes) will be affirmed, even after 500 years of being covered by censorship, fabrications, deviations, and lies.

— Manuel Rosa
St. Augustine, Florida, June 28, 2024

PhD in Insular and Atlantic History

Investigative Historian & Author
Authority on Christopher Columbus

The Italian Christopher Columbus has been debunked and dethroned in this new doctoral dissertation COLUMBUS versus COLÓN: The weaver from Italy was not the navigator from Spain

First Time in Print


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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

COLUMBUS in the Crosswinds

COLUMBUS in the Crosswind is an abridgment of COLUMBUS the Untold Story at the request of the Admiral of the Portuguese Navy Fleet, Henrique Gouveia e Melo who plans to gift copies of the book to his counterparts during foreign travel.

I am honored to have  Gouveia e Melo's support in the promoting of the historical truth.  
The book release was held at the Navy Museum in Lisbon on June 3, 2024 and is only available for sale at the Museum store in Lisbon.

I am currently seeking a US publisher for this shorter version which is perfect for readers who are not interested in all the documents and details of this 500-year-old labyrinth.

Columbus history is changing. Christopher Columbus is no longer Italian. In fact his name was never even Columbus. Eventually all history books will be changed to present the corrected story, until then, your only source for the explanation of the truth and the explanation of the lie is COLUMBUS the Untold Story which can be purchased here: Columbus-Book.com


and COLUMBUS in the crosswinds can be purchased here at the at Navy Museum Book Store
 








Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Jerzy Majcherczyk Columbus Untold Story

 Here is the report from the meeting/lecture by Professor Manuel Rosa:

     In the editorial office of Nowy Dziennik on October 9, 2015.

My personal report:

I went to this lecture with great reservation about the whole topic. I didn't know Professor Rosa before and I heard about his discovery from others and I treated this news with a pinch of salt. However, I decided not to believe it and listen to it myself.

What I heard and saw in his over an hour long presentation left me in a kind of shock and embarrassment! Why?

I realized that Manuel Rosa is a lonely "rider", a "Don Quijote", who for almost 20 years has been trying to turn the history of the greatest geographical discovery of all time upside down with his very well-documented discovery. Everywhere, however, he encounters a wall of ignorance and reluctance.

Why is it like that?

I think it's because his discovery brings to light not only the truth about that the real Columbus was the son of a Polish king, but that information about this was covered up for centuries by the royal courts of Western Europe! And I think this is the main reason for this ignorance.

I am not able to describe the entire meeting in detail here, but what I heard and saw as well as reading his book; COLUMB The Unknown Story completely convinces me. I am convinced NOT only as a Pole who would be happy with the news that Columbus was a Pole, but as a discoverer, a Fellow of the prestigious The Explores Club, a researcher of the history of geographical discoveries and a logical person for whom documented discoveries become true. And that is exactly the case here.

And that is why I will support Professor Manuel Rosa with all my authority in his pursuit of spreading the truth about who the discoverer of America really was.

I also appeal to all of you, my dear compatriots, to spread the discovery of Prof. Rosa in every way available to you, through social media, personal contacts, especially in the American environment or among the inhabitants of the country of your residence.

Now that we know so much about the research/discoveries of Prof. Rosa, we cannot leave him alone in the continued fight for the truth to triumph. It will probably be a long road, but that's what happens with unwanted truth!

I invite you to listen to the conversation with Professor Manuel Rosa, which can be found at this link, from which you will learn how we can all help, together and individually.

Manuel Rosa interview Nick Sadowski

I also invite you to read the article published in Nowy Dziennik about Manuel Rosa's research.

We have known this face for over 500 years, but it is not the real Christopher Columbus!

    ACCORDING TO MANUEL ROSA, EVERYTHING INDICATES THAT COLUMBUS WAS THE SON OF A PORTUGUESE NOBLE LADY AND THE MYSTERIOUS HENRIQUE ALEMAO. SUCH NAME AND SURNAME WAS USED, ACCORDING TO THE RESEARCH, BY NOONE OTHER THAN WLADYSLAW III, THE FORMER KING OF POLAND, WHO DID NOT DIME IN THE BATTLE OF VARNA IN 1444, AS USED TO BELIEVE, BUT - AS IT SHOWS FROM THE DOCUMENTS REACHED BY MANUEL RO SA – FROM THE BATTLEFIELD HE WENT INTO SECRET EXILE. HE SETTLED ON THE PORTUGUESE ISLAND OF MADEIRA AND MARRIED A PORTUGUESE NOBLE WOMAN.

  This is what King Władysław III looked like at the end of And this is what Christopher Columbus looked like. my life. The resemblance to his father is huge!

KRZYSZTOF KOLUMB NEVER WROTE IN ITALIAN, ONLY IN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH. IF HE WAS AN ORDINARY POOR GUY AS HE USED TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE HISTORY TEXTBOOKS, HE COULD NOT HAVE ACCESS TO MANY MONARCHS.

Dear compatriots,

Once again, I invite you to work together. If you have any interesting ideas resulting from your personal or business contacts, please call or write to me. I especially recommend inviting prof. M. Rosa to give a lecture about his discovery in your Cuba, business or university. It would be a huge step to have his book published and widely distributed in English in America.

I believe that together we will achieve these and subsequent goals, because the truth stands behind us. With heartfelt thanks and greetings.

Jerzy Majcherczyk "Yurek"

The Explorers Club – Fellow ’92

Polish Traveler's Club – President 

yurek@odkrywcy.com 1-973-473-1249; https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Majcherczyk


Friday, September 29, 2023

Columbus was not Italian, Columbus Day shocker

New Research Exposes Countless Lies About Christopher Columbus

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Renowned Columbus scholar Dr. Manuel Rosa will present “Columbus Exposed: Lies, Spies & Conspiracies” over the next few weeks

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, September 29, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- With Columbus Day around the corner, North Florida Historian and Author Dr. Manuel Rosa, one of the foremost authorities on Christopher Columbus, announced today he will present a lecture titled “Columbus Exposed: Lies, Spies & Conspiracies” in cities from Florida to Massachusetts. The lecture is based on Dr. Rosa’s decades-long research into the man the world knows as Christopher Columbus, a supposed Italian weaver. In fact, the discoverer was named Cristóbal Colón and was not Italian.

“This year, for Columbus Day, I think we owe it to our ancestors to blow the lid off the lies we’ve been hearing about this man for half a millennium,” said Rosa.

The new evidence was just published in Rosa’s dissertation, CRISTOFORO COLOMBO vs CRISTÓBAL COLÓN. The 30-years-long research shows a story completely different from what most people’s teachers taught them. João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, Chair of the Department of History and Full Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova in Lisbon, wrote that Rosa’s dissertation “Scrupulously respects the sources” and that it makes “clear the impossibility of Cristóbal Colón having been born into a family of Genoese weavers.” 

Uncovering the truth about the discoverer is more than just an esoteric quest for knowledge of the 15th century. Rosa’s lecture will reveal how Cristóbal Colón was, in fact, a Polish prince, not an Italian weaver. The discoverer intentionally claimed that the New World was India because he wanted to deceive Spain. Forged documents led historians astray for centuries.

“The fact that we have Columbus Day in the USA, a place he never visited, shows us how important the myths are in general,” said Rosa, who earned his PhD in Insular and Atlantic History (XV-XX Centuries) from Azores University. “So many false assertions have been made about him and the consequences are not benign. Today there is bitter controversy over who he was, and wasn’t. It is time to start setting the record straight.”

Rosa has scheduled these lectures to align with Columbus Day in the U.S., which is October 9, and Spain’s national holiday, celebrated on October 12 in honor of the 1492 discovery.

The lectures will take place at the following places and times:
- Thursday, October 6 at 6:30 PM at the University of Florida’s Adam Herbert U Center (12000 Alumni Drive, Jacksonville, FL) – This event is free of charge.
- Friday, October 7 at 4:30 PM at the Argyle Branch Library (7973 Old Middleburg Road, Jacksonville, FL) – This event is free of charge.
- Saturday, October 14 at 6:00 PM at St. Anthony Church Parish Hall (400 Cardinal Medeiros Ave, Cambridge, MA) – This event requires ticket purchase.
- Sunday, October 15 at 7:00 PM at the Polish Russian Lithuanian American Citizen’s Club (12 Cheever Street, Danvers, MA) – This event is free of charge.

Since 2006, Rosa has been a member of the Centre for the Humanities, School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon and has published nine revolutionary history books in several countries, including the award-winning "Columbus: The Untold Story" (USA 2016), which is admired as perhaps the best and most authoritative work ever written about the discoverer of America. It received a 5-star review from Indie Reader, won an Independent Press Award in the category of Biography: Historical, won the 2018 New York City Big Book Award and was named the Best World History Book of 2016 in the Huffington Post.

Rosa’s work is supported by the non-profit organization Association Cristovao Colon. For more information and to purchase “Columbus: The Untold Story,” visit www.Columbus-Book.com.

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