Excerpt from Historic Life Leaves, Vol. 1: The Secret of Columbus, Quarterly, June, 1912Various mysteries in the life of Christopher Colum bus have proved so puzzling to his biographers as to have been a source of perennial debate almost from the time of his demise to the present. His age, his birth-place, his lineage and language, his early career, his marital relations, certain of his later deeds, and his actuating motives throughout life, have all been more or less puzzling to the student of history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.