Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian
Well, Catalan and Spanish are not the same, but that doesn't really matter.
As far as I remember from college, Columbus was Italian who was living in Spain.
More like Basque and Spainish are not the same. Catalan and Castllian are both Spainish dialects. Still when examined pieces of writing attributed to Columbus indicated that the pieces were written by someone who grew up speaking Catalan and was taugh to write at a young age.