See Iglesia (1946, 15–17).īartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, 3 vols., edited by André Saint-Lu (Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1986), hereafter cited in the text, in my own translation. See also two texts by Ramón Iglesia: the prologue to Fernando Columbus, Vida del Almirante Don Cristóbal Colón (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1946), 7–19, and El hombre Colón y otros ensayos (Columbus the Man, and Other Essays) (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1944).Ī few commentators have suggested that his nephew, Don Luis, the admiral’s grandchild, wrote Ferdinand Columbus’s book. José Torre Revello, “Don Hernando Colón: Su vida, su biblioteca, sus obras” (Don Ferdinand Columbus: His Life, His Library, His Works) Revista de Historia de América 19 (June 1945): 45–52. In Spanish the text is known as Vida del Almirante Don Cristóbal Colón the English-language edition is The Life of Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand, edited by Benjamin Keen (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1959), hereafter cited in the text.
Published on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage, a revised edition appeared in 1982, with a foreword by David B. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote of La Mancha, part 2, chapter 3, quoted in Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1942), hereafter cited in the text. The one work written by a woman is the novel The Crown of Columbus (1991), actually by the married couple Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich it is discussed in chapter 6. Not a single female author has ever written a biography of Columbus. Norton & Co., 1984), 13–17, hereafter cited in the text. Leon Edel, Writing Lives: Principia Biographica (New York: W. Virginia Woolf, Letters, edited by Nigel Nicolson (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), vol. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Every biographer adapts, revises, and invents, and in the end the text is an indirect account of the author’s mental associations and affinities.
Patience, distance, perspective, a love and respect for the subject, these ingredients are critical to the accuracy of the project. Data are always malleable and subject to interpretation. Leon Edel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James and Willa Cather, claims that to compose a narrative account of a person’s life, an author must not be genealogically or sentimentally related to him or her impartiality could be threatened. “WRITING LIVES,” VIRGINIA WOOLF BELIEVED, “IS THE DEVIL.” 1 As a nonfiction genre, biographies are dangerous in that they enlarge or shrink the natural size, talents, and defects of their object of study.
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