Who Was Christopher Columbus? With Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
1492 was a truly wild year, and there is no one better to talk about it with than one of Patrick's favorite historians, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of many excellent books on Columbus and exploration.
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| 0:06.2 | You spend a lot of time over the years on Columbus and his contemporaries. |
| 0:20.0 | Do you have a favorite story from this period? |
| 0:21.9 | Is there something that you think encapsulates an individual or a broad trend? |
| 0:25.8 | From a Columbus period, well, my favorite story has to be about this food. |
| 0:31.2 | I mean, I also read about this food trip. |
| 0:33.9 | I was quite proud of it because I actually did discover some new stuff, including that |
| 0:38.7 | rather amazingly for a man after whom the world's greatest superpower and vast hemisphere |
| 0:46.7 | is named, he was a pinnacle. |
| 0:49.6 | Was he really? |
| 0:51.3 | Do this great America is named after Pimp? |
| 0:54.3 | When he was young, he was the sort of factotum of Florence. |
| 0:58.6 | He was like a figure for a unit. |
| 1:00.6 | He was the... |
| 1:01.6 | And he was the fixer. |
| 1:04.6 | If you had something shady, you went to the school trip and he did all kinds of stuff, |
| 1:10.6 | really, more of the stuff, including... |
| 1:14.6 | I mean, he was a big channel to incarcerated criminals. |
| 1:20.0 | But the stuff that really amazed him personally was letters from people saying things like |
| 1:25.7 | I really like the blonde one, could you fix up a green knit next time? |
| 1:30.8 | Oh my God, it's all I have to do. |
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