Person navigator
Christopher Columbus
Cristóvão Colombo
navigator
Genoese navigator and discoverer of America, traditionally said to have lived in Madeira and Porto Santo and married to Filipa Moniz, daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo. His reputed Funchal lodging near João Esmeraldo's house was demolished, and his Madeiran stay has been the subject of several studies.
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- Palmeira (quinta) — The navigator Christopher Columbus, whose house in Rua do Esmeraldo supplied the window now kept at the quinta.
- Pestana Júnior (Dr Manuel Gregório) — Christopher Columbus, subject of Pestana Júnior's 1928 historical study.
- Perestrelo (Bartolomeu) — Christopher Columbus, later married to Perestrelo's daughter Filipa, whom Perestrelo never met.
- Branco (Alfredo de Castro de Freitas) — Navigator whose stay in Madeira was the subject of an 1936 work by Branco.
- Brito Rebelo (General Jacinto Inácio de) — Navigator whose long stay in Madeira Brito Rebelo considered doubtful.
- Madeiran history — Navigator who stayed in Madeira, where, according to Azevedo, he may have first conceived of the New World.
- Oceanography — Navigator who, according to the quoted text, may have been led by fruits washed ashore on Madeira to suppose lands lay to the west.
- Old Buildings — Navigator whose reputed Funchal house was one of the demolished Gothic buildings.
- Moniz — The great navigator, married to Filipa Moniz.
- Old Funchal — Christopher Columbus, who is said to have lived at the granel do poço near Esmeraldo's house.
- Callejon (Dom Ventura de) — The Genoese navigator whose stay in Madeira was the subject of Callejon's article.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Navigator whose reputed house in Rua do Esmeraldo supplied a Manueline window shown at the exhibition.
- Carcinology — Navigator said by some to have taken the floating crab Grapsus minutus as a sign of land.
- Franco de Sousa (Francisco) — Navigator for whose monument Franco made a maquette.
- Levada de Santa Luzia (road) — The navigator Christopher Columbus, whose former Funchal house supplied the window placed at the Quinta da Palmeira.
- Ornelas de Vasconcelos (Agostinho de) — Navigator whose residence in Madeira was the subject of a memoir by the subject in 1892.
- Sé (parish) — The navigator said to have lived in João Esmeraldo's house in the parish.
- National monuments — The navigator Christopher Columbus, said to have lived in João Esmeraldo's house in Funchal.
- Azevedo (Dr Álvaro Rodrigues de) — Navigator whose supposed house in Madeira was the subject of a study by Azevedo.
- Esmeraldo (João) — Navigator whose stay in Madeira is linked with Esmeraldo.
- Meireles (Viscount of) — Navigator whose Funchal house the Visconde wished rebuilt.
- Read Cabral (Guilherme) — Genoese navigator to whom Read Cabral dedicated a poem published in 1892.
- Sanches (Afonso) — Genoese navigator settled and married in Madeira who is said to have received Sanches's chart.
- Sea beans — Navigator who, some suppose, saw drifting sea beans as proof of unknown lands to the west.
2Chronology
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D. Ventura de Callejon's notice on Columbus's stay in Madeira and his house in Funchal was published in issue 38 of La Ilustración Española y Americana.
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Agostinho de Ornelas published his memoir on Columbus's residence in Madeira.
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Guilherme Read Cabral published in Funchal a pamphlet with a poem dedicated to Columbus.
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During a long stay in Funchal the Visconde de Meireles advocated rebuilding Columbus's house.
