On March 15, 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived back in the Spanish harbour of Palos de la Frontera, two months after concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
On his arrival back in Spain,
Christopher Columbus immediately wrote a letter announcing his discoveries to
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who had helped finance his trip. The letter
was written in Spanish and sent to Rome, where it was printed in Latin by
Stephan Plannck. Plannck mistakenly left Queen Isabella’s name out of the
pamphlet’s introduction but quickly realized his error and reprinted the
pamphlet a few days later.
