Columbus at the High Court of Salamanca, c1887. After Nicolò Barabino (1831-1891). Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), at the reunion of a council of sages, both clergymen and laymen, held in the Convent of San Estebán, in Salamanca, at request of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, to listen his proposal to reach Asia by navigating to the West.

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