Excerpt from Columbus and Beatriz: A Novel
The object of this work is to attempt the reparation of an injustice which history has done to a noble and long-suffering woman. Beatriz Enriquez has been denied her lawful position as the wife of Columbus by writers from Humboldt and Irving to the tourist who publishes his impressions of a few weeks' sojourn in Spain; and the illicit connection of Columbus with a beautiful lady of Cordova has been expatiated upon in every tone of impartial narrative and jesting allusion. The slander is, however, of modern origin. Although Columbus was loaded with calumny during his lifetime, no one dreamed of denying his connection by marriage with the noble house of Arana, or of questioning the legitimacy of his second son, Fernando.
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