The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over his life and its significance. Millions if not billions of people have learned his name. Most have some sense of what he did, that it was momentous, a great achievement, an act of primacy. But was his achievement “great” because he “discovered America” and thus made possible the hemisphere’s “great” nations? Or was it an apocalyptic catastrophe for tens of millions of Indigenous and African peoples because he initiated centuries of enslavement, population collapse, and colonialist exploitation?

In The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus, acclaimed historian Matthew Restall, perhaps the leading scholar of the Spanish Empire, presents a new, authoritative biography of Columbus, while at the same time tracing his many afterlives down into our own time. He explores the mysteries, many of them manufactured, that color our understanding of Columbus even in the twenty-first century—mysteries surrounding Columbus’s name, nationality, place of birth, ancestry, education, religion, intellectual vision, moral fiber, sexual proclivities, and current resting place. He shows how Columbus became an iconic American hero, in a process that stretched through the nineteenth century and eventually produced a parallel hero in the form of the Italian American Columbus.

Restall gives us the true Columbus. He takes us beyond polemic, sifting through the evidence across nations, languages, and five centuries to explore the many questions that make up what he calls “Columbiana.” He demonstrates that, far from a uniquely talented individual, Columbus is better understood as being typical of the Iberian and northern Italian men of his day—yet another merchant mariner who became an explorer, slave-trader, and conquistador-settler. And Restall challenges the notion, deeply held to this day, that Columbus can be credited or blamed for all that happened after 1492—that his first Atlantic crossing determined subsequent world history.

Whatever one’s views of Columbus, Restall’s book is the necessary, definitive account. It dispels all the myths and gives us Columbus as he was. It shows how he has been distorted in the centuries since his death—and how we might come to understand him, and his legacies, anew.

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Product Details

Author:
Matthew Restall
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
416
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (October 7, 2025)
Imprint:
W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date:
October 7, 2025
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781324086932
ISBN-10:
1324086939
Weight:
36oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
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