A reviewer inġ945 said that “this book presents a case which students of the vexed Then draws persuasive conclusions based on the evidence. Nonetheless the book still remains and in it he methodically lays out the evidence and After 1943, the book seems to have been all but forgotten and hasĬertainly been overlooked by most Columbus scholars. Unfortunately Canoutas’s book was privately Time anyone proposed in scholarly fashion that Columbus was actually a Greek, and inįact a noble Byzantine Greek. It took him nearly eight years of skilled research to write and it was the first Said to have visited the Greeks of every state in the Union exceptģ00-page book on Columbus was published in English in New York in 1943. The early part of the last century, Canoutas was a preeminent leader in One, Married a diplomat the other became a Radio City Rockette. Canoutas had two daughters (Pothoula and Daphne). Musician, writer, and associated to the house of the ByzantineĮmperors. His wife, Euphrosyne Palaiologos, was said to be a scholar, In this country he became a member of the Massachusetts and New Yorkīars. He graduated in law from the University ofĪthens, and became a member of the European Bar at Constantinople beforeĬoming to America in 1905 and graduating from an American law school.2 He claims that Columbus was from a Greek family originally from the Byzantium Empire, and even though his arguments sound reasonable, they are regarded as highly unlikely by the majority of modern scholars.Ĭanoutas was born in Greece. He also referred to himself as "Columbus de Terra Rubra" (Columbus of the Red Earth) Chios is known for its red soil in the south of the island where it grows the famous mastic trees which was a prized commodity during that era. The argument supporting this theory states that Chios was under Genoese control at the time, and was thus part of the Republic of Genoa, and that he kept his journal in Greek and Latin instead of the Italian of Genoa. Join the X-Files today as it examines the book.
The novel is titled "Christopher Columbus: A Greek Nobleman" and it claims that Columbus may have come from the island of Chios. Why, for instance, did a man who supposedly live in Genoa until early adulthood have a very poor knowledge of Italian and never use it when writing to his brothers? How, in the rigid class structure of Renaissance Europe, did a humble wool-worker manage to marry into the Portuguese nobility within three years of arriving in Portugal? How did he acquire royal patronage for a risky and unusual plan to find a new route to the Indies? The controversy surrounding Columbus's origins have been examined by many scholars and one such scholar by the name of Seraphim G. There has been more written about Christopher Columbus than about any other person in the world and yet his past has remained a mystery.
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