Kryštof Kolumbus citáty
Kryštof Kolumbus
Datum narození: 9. listopad 1451
Datum úmrtí: 20. květen 1506
Kryštof Kolumbus byl janovský mořeplavec a kolonizátor narozený v Janovské republice v dnešní severozápadní Itálii. Ve službách Katolických králů Španělska uskutečnil čtyři plavby přes Atlantský oceán, které v Evropě probudily zájem o nový kontinent, později nazvaný Amerika. Tyto výpravy a Kolumbovy snahy o založení trvalých sídel na Hispaniole zahájily španělskou kolonizaci, která vyústila v soutěž evropských mocností o kolonizaci Jižní i Severní Ameriky.
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„I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.“
— Cristoforo Colombo
3 August 1492 diary entry http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
„I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum (which is only found in Chios), also as much of aloes wood, and as many slaves for the navy, as their Majesties will wish to demand.“
— Cristoforo Colombo
"Concerning the Islands Recently Discovered in the Indian Sea" (14 March 1493)
„I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries.“
— Cristoforo Colombo
Letter to Doña Juana de Torres (October 1500)
„... your Highnesses may believe that this island (Hispaniola), and all the others, are as much yours as Castile. Here there is only wanting a settlement and the order to the people to do what is required. For I, with the force I have under me, which is not large, could march over all these islands without opposition. I have seen only three sailors land, without wishing to do harm, and a multitude of Indians fled before them. They have no arms, and are without warlike instincts; they all go naked, and are so timid that a thousand would not stand before three of our men. So that they are good to be ordered about, to work and sow, and do all that may be necessary, and to build towns, and they should be taught to go about clothed and to adopt our customs.“
— Cristoforo Colombo
16 December 1492
„Here the men lost all patience, and complained of the length of the voyage, but the Admiral encouraged them in the best manner he could, representing the profits they were about to acquire, and adding that it was to no purpose to complain, having come so far, they had nothing to do but continue on to the Indies, till with the help of our Lord, they should arrive there.“
— Cristoforo Colombo
10 October 1492
Variant translation: Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.
As translated in Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1963) by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 62
