Columbus Was Not Italian

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Columbus Was Not Italian—New Research Uncovers 500-Year-Old Cover-Up

COLUMBUS was a Royal Prince born in Madeira

CHICAGO, September 28, 2025 — Everything you thought you knew about Christopher Columbus is wrong. In a real-life historical detective story, Dr. Manuel Rosa, PhD in Insular and Atlantic History and the world’s leading expert on Columbus’s life, has uncovered evidence proving that Columbus was not an Italian weaver, but a Portuguese-born prince of Polish-Lithuanian royal blood.

This history changing evidence required 35 years of research in European archives, reviewing manuscripts, genealogical records, Spanish portraits, and DNA studies, Dr. Rosa has solved a 500-year-old mystery. Archival Spanish documents show that “Columbus” was not his real name. Born Segismundo Henriques in 1456 on Madeira, the explorer’s father was King Władysław III of Poland. A 1424 letter from Pope Martin V (Otto Colonna) confirms the connections to the Colonna family, and Segismundo adopted the surname Colón in Spain to conceal his royal lineage.

"Courts, the Vatican, and other authorities worked over the centuries to suppress this evidence," said Dr. Rosa. "This 500-year-old lie has misled classrooms worldwide. History books will be rewritten."

In his PhD dissertation, Columbus versus Colón, Dr. Rosa exposes forged documents, chronicler inaccuracies, printing errors, fraud, and political cover-ups that allowed Genoa to claim Colón was Columbus their own simple weaver. These new discoveries rewrite Columbus’s biography and transform our understanding of the 1492 voyage’s geopolitical significance.

“The reader will not find an exercise of guesses here, or rejection of sources that do not fit, nor any unfounded deductions,”
— Professor João Paulo Oliveira e Costa

Public Lecture Series
Dr. Rosa is invited to present his findings in a series of free Chicago lectures. 

• October 4, 2:00 PM – Chicago Lithuanian Center, 5620 S. Claremont Ave, Chicago, IL  Saturday, October 4, at 3:00 p.m.

• October 5, 12:00 PM – Lithuanian World Center, Lithuanian World Center, 

  14911 127th Street, Lemont, IL

Scholars, journalists, and the public are invited to attend and participate in Q&A sessions.

Dr. Rosa asserts that the new evidence is so compelling the public may no longer need DNA studies to settle the centuries-old debate over Columbus’s true identity. 

Media Contact: Bruno Sancci
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