Contrary to what is commonly known, documents of the Spanish Royal archives and secret archive of the Order of Santiago certify his birth in Savona. Very little is known of the Admiral's origins because he always hid them and ordered his family to never reveal them. In addition, he always hid the years he spent early in his career as the captain of French corsair ships fighting the Spaniards. Compared to all other reconstructions of the life of Christopher Columbus, this one is based solely on documents signed by the Admiral and on the testimonies of those who knew him personally.

Di seguito è possibile consultare i testi di archivio della Dott.ssa GUADALUPE CHOCANO HIGUERAS a conferma dei natali dell'ammiraglio.
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A citizen of Milan, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, a contino namely “a court attendant” and confidant of the Catholic Kings was ordered by Queen Isabella I of Castile to give a humanistic education to the young Spanish nobles living at the Court. He personally knew Christopher Columbus for many years and through his letters he makes him famous throughout Europe calling him Ligurian, but never Genoese. If he called him Ligurian, it was because that's the way he was known at the Spanish Court.
Christopher Columbus was 70 years old (1) when he died in the night between May 19th and May 20th, 1506. Almost all historians were convinced of this up to 1904 when Ugo Assereto, from Genoa, found documents in the Archive of Genoa and Savona that spoke of a wool merchant named Christopher Columbus born in Genoa around 1451-1452.
He was 16 years younger though than the Admiral of the Ocean Seas.

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