Christopher Columbus worked as a wage soldier under which {king...Italy;Spain;Naples} or Duke of Finland?

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'King' of Italy. (1464-1478, 1487-1499, the Sforza of Milan) Sforza: an Italian family that ruled Milan from 1450 to 1499... Columbus. Born at Genoa, or on Genoese territory, probably {1451;} died at Valladolid, Spain, 20 May 1506. ... Up to his arrival in Spain (1485) only one date has been preserved. His son Fernando, quoting from his father's writings says that in February, 1467, he navigated the seas about 'Tile' (probably Iceland). Columbus himself in a letter to King Ferdinand says that he began to navigate at the age of fourteen, though in the journal of his first voyage (no longer in existence), in 1493, he was said to have been on the sea twenty-three years, which would make him nineteen when he first became a mariner. The early age at which he began his career as a sailor is not surprising for a native of Genoa, as the Genoese were most enterprising and daring seamen. Columbus is said in his early days to have been a corsair, especially in the war against the Moors, themselves merciless pirates. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04140a.htm During the fifteenth century, Genoa constantly called on outsiders to rule {her;} ( 1464-1478, 1487-1499, the Sforza of Milan)http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06419a.htm Dec 23 02, 11:08 AM

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