Foreword Preface List of Maps and Illustrations PART ONE Introduction: Columbus - The Man, the Voyages, the Legacy Columbus''s Genoese Origins and Early Life Columbus in Portugal, 1476-1485 Columbus in Spain, 1485-1492 The First Voyage, 1492-1493 The Second Voyage, 1493-1496: Colonization The Third Voyage, 1498-1500 The Fourth Voyage, 1502-1504, and Columbus''s Last Years Columbus''s Legacy Columbus after Columbus PART TWO The Documents 1. Christopher Columbus 1. Agreement Mentioning Domenico Colombo and His Son Christopher Columbus , Genoa, September 22, 1470 2. Notarial Document Mentioning Christopher Columbus''s Trip to Madeira to Purchase Sugar , Genoa, August 25, 1479 3. Bartolomé de Las Casas, On Columbus''s Appearance, Education, and Character , ca. 1527-1563 4. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, On Columbus''s Appearance and Origins , 1535-ca. 1549 5.
Christopher Columbus, Undated Letter to Fernando and Isabel , 1500-1502 6 Christopher Columbus, Letter to Nicolò Oderigo with "o ferens" Signature , March 21, 1502 7. Bartolomé de Las Casas, On Columbus as an Instrument of God''s Will , ca. 1527-1563 8. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, On Columbus as "First Discoverer," 1535-ca. 1549 9. Agostino Giustiniani, Psalter, On Columbus the Evangelist , 1516 2. The Four Voyages First Voyage, 1492-1493 10. Santa Fe Capitulations , Santa Fe, April 17, 1492 11.
Granada Capitulations , Granada, April 30, 1492 12. Christopher Columbus, Selected Entries from the Log , August 3, 1492-March 15, 1493 Second Voyage, 1493-1496 13. Warrant to Christopher Columbus and Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca Commissioning Them to Outfit the Second Voyage , Barcelona, May 24, 1493 14. Michele da Cuneo, From News of the Islands of the Hesperian Ocean Discovered by Sir Christopher Columbus of Genoa , October 1495 15. Giambattista Strozzi, Letter from Cádiz , March 19, 1494 16. Giovanni de'' Bardi, Letter from Seville , April 19, 1494 Third Voyage, 1498-1500 17. Instructions to Columbus for Colonization of the Indies , Burgos, April 23, 1497 18. Bartolomé de Las Casas, On Columbus''s Third Voyage , ca.
1527-1563 19. Andrés del Corral, Testimony concerning Columbus''s Landing on the South American Mainland , Santo Domingo, June 16, 1512 20. Christopher Columbus, Letter to Juana de la Torre, Making the Case for the Restitution of His Privileges , Late 1500 Fourth Voyage, 1502-1504 21. Writ Ordering Restitution of Property to the Admiral and His Brothers , Granada, September 27, 1501 22. Bartolomé de Las Casas, On Columbus''s Fourth Voyage , ca. 1527-1563 3. The Spanish Crown, Portugal, and the Papacy 23. Alexander VI, Papal Bull "Inter Cetera II," Rome, May 4, 1493 24.
Alexander VI, Papal Bull "Piis Fidelium," Rome, June 25, 1493 25. Alexander VI, Papal Bull "Dudum Siquidem," Rome, September 25, 1493 26. Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal , June 7, 1494 27. Alexander VI, Papal Bull "Eximie Devotionis," Rome, November 16, 1501 4. European Constructions of the New World 28. Allegretto Allegretti, Sienese Diaries from 1450 to 1496 , April 25, 1493 29. Morelletto Ponzone, Letter from Ferrara , June 11, 1494 30. Diego Alvarez Chanca, From His Report to the City Council of Seville on Columbus''s Second Voyage , ca.
1494 31. Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices , ca. 1498 32. Peter Martyr of Anghiera, On Tainos, Caribs, the Flora and Fauna of the Indies, and the Golden Age of Life According to Nature , 1511 33. Alessandro Geraldini, On Caribs and Tainos , March 29, 1522 Appendixes A Christopher Columbus Chronology (1451-1506) Glossary Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index.