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For Serious Readers Of This Thread -------------------------------- And then there's this intriguing story: Martin Alonso Pinzon ------------------ Pinzon built all three of Columbus's ships, paid one-eighth of the expenses and secured the crews for all three vessels. He then commanded "Pinta" on the 1492-1493 voyage to "The Indies", while his brother, Vicente Yanez, commanded "Nina". Columbus, the Admiral, sailed in Santa Maria and commanded the entire expedition. Columbus and Pinzon had a severe falling out during the voyage and a lawsuit which lasted for 300 years ensued between partisans and heirs of the two men. The lawsuit was not settled until 1793. It's reportedly the longest running one in Spanish History. The Vinland Map, the Tartar Relation and the four books [XXI-XXIV] of Vincent of Beauvais's _Speculum Historiale_, originally bound together, may have come from the treasure trove of documents engendered by that long legal fight. I'll bet the Spanish lawyers made a pretty penny on it. One version has it that the volume, with the map, may well have come from the Vatican Library where Pinzon was given it by Pope Innocent VIII's librarian and cosmographer, Giovanni Lorenzi, and that Pinzon then brought it back to Spain. "During a visit to Rome he [Pinzon] learned from the Holy Office of the tithes which had been paid from the beginning of the fifteenth century from a country named Vinland, and examined the charts of the Norman explorers." _The Catholic Encyclopedia_ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12104a.htm Intriguing.... [N.B. Vide _The Case Of The Vinland Map_, by Wilcomb E. Washburn, in VMTR 95, especially pp. xxii-xxv ---- DSH] "Tithes were reportedly coming in from Greenland and "Vinland" in the 15th Century ---- so those areas were portrayed on the map." A fascinating story ---- certainly demanding a more concerted scholarly investigation.... Deus Vult. "For by diligent perusing the actes of great men, by considering all the circumstances of them, by composing Counseiles and Meanes with events, a man may seem to have lived in all ages, to have been present at all enterprises, to be more strongly confirmed in Judgement, to have attained a greater experience than the longest life can possibly afford." John Hayward, __The Lives of the III Norman Kings of England, William the First, William the Second and Henry I__, London, 1612, Preface ------------ D. Spencer Hines Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor.
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