Caro António Taveira,

Pode continuar a torcer as coisas e a troçar, e não o quero impedir de continuar a seguir a sua noção de que tudo se explica com os Colombos de Cuccaro...
Deixo-lhe aqui um extracto de Washington Irving escrito em 1850, 42 anos antes da Cidade de Génova tentar provar que CC era de lá. Espero que saiba ler inglês (senão eu posso traduzir,) mas o importante nesta texto é que um monge, testemunha de Baltasar, jurou sobre os evenagelhos ter visto uma coisa que após cuidadosa investigação acontecera mais de 100 anos antes....E que as provas e Baltasar foram rejeitadas.
Note ainda que os testemunhas asseguravam que CC e seus 2 irmãos tinham nascido no castelo de Cuccaro.


"Balthazar Colombo, of the house of Cuccaro and Conzano,
in the dukedom of Montferrat, in Piedmont, was an active and
persevering claimant. He came from Italy into Spain, where he devoted
himself for many years to the prosecution of this suit. He produced a
genealogical tree of his family, in which was contained one Domenico
Colombo, lord of Cuccaro, whom he maintained to be the identical
father of Christopher Columbus, the admiral. He proved that this
Domenico was living at the requisite era, and produced many witnesses
who had heard that the navigator was born in the castle of Cuccaro;
whence, it was added, he and his two brothers had eloped at an early
age, and bad never returned.
A monk is also mentioned among the witnesses, who made oath that
Christopher and bis brothers were born in that castle of Cuccaro.
This testimony was afterwards withdrawn by the prosecutor; as
it was found that the monk's recollection must have extended back
considerably upward of a century. The claim of Balthazar
was negatived. His proofs that Christopher Columbus was a native of
Cuccaro were rejected..."